> 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