[Server-devel] Anaconda installs OOM with selinux-policy-targeted rpm from F9 updates

[Daniel J Walsh]

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Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh at redhat.com> wrote:
>> selinux-policy-targeted is a memory hog, but it should not have changed
>> that drastically in updates.
>>
>> Is this repeatable?
> 
> 100% repeatable on the 3 attempts on the lower-mem machine. On the same machin
> 
> The package  selinux-policy-targeted 3.3.1 103.fc9 -- I am running a
> couple of additional installs to gather more information.
> 
> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Chris Lumens <clumens at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>  - Anaconda OOMs without a warning or useful message to the user
>> I don't believe there's any way for anaconda to know this, and there's
>> certainly no way for us to do anything about it.
> 
> Well, the behaviour is really weird. Perhaps there is no OOM killer in
> place during an anaconda install? If there was, it'd expect the rpm
> process or anaconda to be shot down -- but the machine is halting
> instead, it literally switches off.
> 
> Whatever is bootstrapping anaconda (init script in the initrd?) should
> be able to at least see the odd exit status and echo a "something went
> wrong" msg...? Maybe that's the problem?
> 
> cheers,
> 
> 
> 
> m
Well selinux-policy-targeted is not supported on olpc so you should
probably exclude it from the install.  I can not imagine what in updates
caused it to grow.  Upgrades add rules but usually not a large amount.
Going from Fedora 9 to 10 could be a problem.


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