On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Hal Murray <[email protected]> wrote: >> Perhaps someone could produce a patch to yum to remove these junk files >> before it exits? That would benefit all yum users, not just >> tmpfs-constrained OLPC users. > > I expect it's a feature not a bug.
At least an attempt at a feature :-) Correct -- we have /var/cache/yum in a tmpfs. I suspect we should drop that particular tmpfs. Does it buy us anything we desire? Users save ~80MB of diskspace and some wear, but they have to download the files *everytime*. (Our frozen repos should ensure that isn't necessary... And yum becomes pretty usable, without OOM'ing the machine. I just ran a few yum jobs on an XO-1 after unmounting the tmpfs. More info at -- https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9569 m -- [email protected] [email protected] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
