19 Dec
2012
19 Dec
'12
12:30 p.m.
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
The above command flushes the file system cache - so the 'something' has to be read back into memory from disk again (I have no idea what this 'something' is ...)
I guess this 'corruption' (if it is indeed a corruption) shouldn't happen - but I have noticed this with yum before - and flushing the cache in this way generally 'fixes' the issue for me
James Pearson