os351 on XO-1 - Browse & memory pressure

[Martin Langhoff]

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net> wrote:
>> Perhaps someone could produce a patch to yum to remove these junk files
>> before it exits?  That would benefit all yum users, not just
>> tmpfs-constrained OLPC users.
>
> I expect it's a feature not a bug.

At least an attempt at a feature :-)

Correct -- we have /var/cache/yum in a tmpfs.

I suspect we should drop that particular tmpfs. Does it buy us
anything we desire? Users save ~80MB of diskspace and some wear, but
they have to download the files *everytime*. (Our frozen repos should
ensure that isn't necessary...

And yum becomes pretty usable, without OOM'ing the machine. I just ran
a few yum jobs on an XO-1 after unmounting the tmpfs.

More info at --

https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9569



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