On 11/09/2012 07:15 PM, Peter Jones wrote:
On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 05:33:05PM +0100, Matej Cepl wrote:
On 2012-11-09, 14:30 GMT, David Cantrell wrote:
Just to cite similar complaints I see from time to time... It
irritates me that people think it's a problem that in 2012 they can't
install in a VM that is allocated with 256M of RAM. Allocate
a reasonable amount, start over. Your host system for multiple VMs in
2012 should not have 1G of memory.
Does it really irritate you? Those are strong words ... anyway.
I will risk your irritation, anger, maybe even rage (after all, their
impact is limited over IRC) and let me ask:
a) Why installer requires 2-4 times more memory than any other program
running on my computer (and the software you use on it could be a good
example of SOHO server)?
The installer's memory footprint is largely bound by the size of the
package set. So, for example, a yum "upgrade" will take more ram -
because there are effectively twice as many packages involved.
There may be ways to reduce how much of that needs to be kept in ram
at a time, but those are things for yum/rpmlib - they're not anaconda
changes.
Except that rpm (and yum) use a lot LESS memory these days than they did
in the RHEL-5 era, which I think was used as a comparison here. That's
not where all the memory has gone, quite the contrary.
- Panu -
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