[CentOS] yum-plugin-fastestmirror and CentOS 5

Tue Apr 17 09:54:03 UTC 2007
Jordi Espasa Clofent <jordi.listas at yahoo.es>

> 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.

:S