<p>Well a reboot would have the consequence of killing all processes and free up memory...</p>
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<p>On 20 Jul 2010 22:25, "James B. Byrne" <<a href="mailto:byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca">byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> <br>> On Mon, July 19, 2010 16:01, James Hogarth wrote:<br>
>> Sent from Android mobile<br>>><br>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>>> From: "James Hogarth" <<a href="mailto:james.hogarth@gmail.com">james.hogarth@gmail.com</a>><br>
>> Date: 19 Jul 2010 21:00<br>>> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Problem with yum<br>>> To: "CentOS mailing list" <<a href="mailto:centos@centos.org">centos@centos.org</a>><br>>><br>>> With the kernel logging an out of memory error? My first instinct<br>
>> would be<br>>> to check free to see the status of RAM and swap and perhaps end<br>>> unnecessary<br>>> processes..<br>> <br>> <br>> What I ended up doing was rebooting the server and that seems to<br>
> have cleared the problem. Trying yum clear all did not work as the<br>> yum process stalled as before.<br>> <br>> -- <br>> *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel ***<br>> James B. Byrne mailto:<a href="mailto:ByrneJB@Harte-Lyne.ca">ByrneJB@Harte-Lyne.ca</a><br>
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