Because it's typically not an option in these kinds of VMs – you'd need
to create a swapfile, enable it, before you could launch the first DNF
command. Ideally, disable it after, as chances are a certain bookseller
is billing you per IOPS.
It's completely out of the questions for (e.g. cgroups) limited
containers, which can't even tell the kernel to enable swap.
Best,
Marcus
On 8/29/22 12:12, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
On 8/29/22 09:19, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 05:44:26PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
it's quite an old bug, but up until recently, the summary was
apparently accurate - dnf would run out of memory with 512M of RAM, but
was OK with 1G. However, as of quite recently, on F36 at least (not
sure if anyone's explicitly tested F37), dnf operations are commonly
failing on VMs/containers with 1G of RAM due to running out of RAM and
getting OOM-killed.
The discussion in the bug indicates that this memory growth is
related to
loading of the full filepath dataset. We have been discussing splitting
out the non-primary-filepath-data (i.e. paths that are not /etc,
/usr/bin,
/usr/sbin), out into a separate lazilly-loaded file.
If it is currently loading stuff that is not really used in the
computation,
this is a perfect case where swap could help (things would be written
to swap and then forgot on deallocation).
Unfortunately, swap is for some reason considered out-of-fashion, even in
these memory constrained set ups.
Regards.
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