[CentOS] Yum Segfaulting

Ken Smith kens at kensnet.org
Wed Dec 19 15:52:17 UTC 2012


James Pearson wrote:
> Ken Smith wrote:
>>
>> Hi James, brilliant "echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches" worked. So 
>> does that mean that there wasn't enough free memory for yum to run?
>
> No, it might mean that there was a 'corruption' of the in-memory copy 
> of 'something' used by yum/python
>
>
I had wondered about memory integrity so I had run a memory test - that 
passed. Oh well.

Thanks

Ken

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