[CentOS] yum-plugin-fastestmirror and CentOS 5

[Wojtek.Pilorz]

On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote:

> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:54:03 +0200
> From: Jordi Espasa Clofent <jordi.listas at yahoo.es>
> Reply-To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>
> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] yum-plugin-fastestmirror and CentOS 5
> 
> 
> > On Fedora Core 6
> > yum with yum-fastestmirror dies if ulimit for address space
> > (as reported by ulimit -v) is set and too low.
> > In my tests 'too low' means anything below about 900MB.
> > I believe it depends on the number of mirrors - for each one a thread is 
> > created with a few MB of address space cost.
> >
> > I am wondering if this is same in CentOS 5 (I have not it installed, so I 
> > cannot cehck myself at the moment)
> 
> I don't know Fedora's case but in my own CentOS boxes I usually don't 
> install fastest-mirror plugin because the same reason you say: the yum 
> management speed becomes slow.
> 
My problem was that yum just died.
Now I just specifically set ulimit -v 999000 before running yum and it is 
OK. fastest-mirror is supposed to choose fastest mirror, so that 
downloading should be faster. However, I have not investigated if this is 
so.
Unfortunately, yum in any case cannot be exactly described as speed 
daemon, esp. on PIII machine.

Wojtek