yum and memory

[Net Llama!]

This has nothing to do with memory, its the first error that you need to 
run down:
http://www.spinics.net/linux/fedora/fedora-users/msg251411.html
http://fcp.surfsite.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=39323&forum=10&post_id=179187


On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Vu Pham wrote:
> My server has 1 G of memory and 2g of swap.
>
> At the time I had the problem posted in this email, the memory snapshot
> was as below.
> Mem:   1034840k total,   900176k used,   134664k free,     3708k buffers
> Swap:  2031608k total,   285212k used,  1746396k free,   350240k cached
>
> When I ran yum to install screen, I got the below error and one of the
> messages is "cannot allocate memory" while there were plenty of memory,
> at least more than 1 g of swap.
>
> Then I wrote a test program that asked for 1 G of memory and it ran just
> fine. "top" also showed a lot of swap space allocated when the test
> program ran ( I let it sleep for 5 seconds so I can see top status ).
>
> Why does yum complain about memory ?
>
> Or maybe the problem is something else ? I just got to FC some days ago
> so I must be wrong somewhere.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Vu
>
>
> [root at home2 ~]# yum install screen
> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> rpmdb: Lock table is out of available locker entries
> rpmdb: Unknown locker ID: 7ee
> error: db4 error(22) from db->close: Invalid argument
> error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Cannot allocate memory
> (12)
> error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in <module>
>    yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
>  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 82, in main
>    base.getOptionsConfig(args)
>  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 146, in getOptionsConfig
>    errorlevel=opts.errorlevel)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 153, in
> _getConfig
>    self._conf = config.readMainConfig(startupconf)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 601, in
> readMainConfig
>    yumvars['releasever'] = _getsysver(startupconf.installroot,
> startupconf.distroverpkg)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 664, in
> _getsysver
>    idx = ts.dbMatch('provides', distroverpkg)
> TypeError: rpmdb open failed
>
>
>
>
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