Stephen Smoogen <ssmoo...@redhat.com> writes: > On Mon, 1 Aug 2022 at 07:45, Dusty Mabe <du...@dustymabe.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On 7/29/22 12:05, Peter Robinson wrote: >> >> Looks like dnf makecache is uses a lot more memory, causing issues on >> >> smaller systems/containers. >> >> >> >> F34: >> >> >> >> Metadata cache created. >> >> 1.51user 0.15system 0:12.01elapsed 13%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata >> 162440maxresident)k >> >> 144inputs+56outputs (0major+46906minor)pagefaults 0swaps >> >> >> >> >> >> F35: >> >> >> >> Metadata cache created. >> >> 29.28user 2.15system 0:49.94elapsed 62%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata >> 841704maxresident)k >> >> 184160inputs+497320outputs (181major+425900minor)pagefaults 0swaps >> >> >> >> Is this a known issue? >> > >> > I've seen it on arm systems with 512Mb RAM which previously ran dnf >> > (not just makecache) fine and now don't. There was a bug opened but >> > the dnf team closed it. >> >> >> Seems like this bug is related >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1907030 >> >> We are hitting this issue in Fedora CoreOS CI on VMs with 1G of RAM. >> > > I wonder if this is one of those problems where microdnf needs to be used > until the full dnf rewrite in C++ is done. I remember something about > memory usage and dnf vs microdnf a while ago for smaller memory systems.. > and with the general 'we need to double memory usage' every couple of > releases that applications have ... maybe 1Gb is no longer valid?
It definitely is no longer valid. I am running Fedora Server on a 1 GB RAM VPS and unless I kill everything on that box (including the firewall), I can't run dnf upgrade... Cheers, Dan _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
