Well a reboot would have the consequence of killing all processes and free up memory... Sent using Android mobile On 20 Jul 2010 22:25, "James B. Byrne" <byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca> wrote: > > On Mon, July 19, 2010 16:01, James Hogarth wrote: >> Sent from Android mobile >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: "James Hogarth" <james.hogarth at gmail.com> >> Date: 19 Jul 2010 21:00 >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Problem with yum >> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org> >> >> With the kernel logging an out of memory error? My first instinct >> would be >> to check free to see the status of RAM and swap and perhaps end >> unnecessary >> processes.. > > > What I ended up doing was rebooting the server and that seems to > have cleared the problem. Trying yum clear all did not work as the > yum process stalled as before. > > -- > *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** > James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB at Harte-Lyne.ca > Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca > 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 > Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 > Canada L8E 3C3 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100721/a14ff66c/attachment-0005.html>