On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote: > Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:54:03 +0200 > From: Jordi Espasa Clofent <jordi.listas at yahoo.es> > Reply-To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] yum-plugin-fastestmirror and CentOS 5 > > > > 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. > My problem was that yum just died. Now I just specifically set ulimit -v 999000 before running yum and it is OK. fastest-mirror is supposed to choose fastest mirror, so that downloading should be faster. However, I have not investigated if this is so. Unfortunately, yum in any case cannot be exactly described as speed daemon, esp. on PIII machine. Wojtek