James Wilkinson wrote:
>> The easiest way to check swap is to run free (from a command prompt).
It
>> reports:
>> $ free
>> total used free shared buffers cached
>> Mem: 1025568 1012780 12788 0 74376 616300
>> -/+ buffers/cache: 322104 703464
>> Swap: 2024108 196 2023912
>>
>> saying I have 2 GB of swap, of which 196K is used.
Yes, that helps. Free reports:
$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 256212 58400 197812 0 1912 28416
-/+ buffers/cache: 28072 228140
Swap: 524280 87600 436680
So it does look like I have swap turned on. Some further testing
indicates that the removal of old kernel-devel packages (15 of them) is
at least part of the problem. I tried running:
$ package-cleanup --oldkernels
from yum-utils. That resulted in the same error as did my big yum
update (which was "memory alloc (4 bytes) returned NULL"). So I tried:
$ yum remove kernel-devel-2.6.12-*_FC4
Figuring that 15 was too many to remove at once so just remove these 5.
Same error. In fact, attempting to remove just one kernel-devel package
resulted in this error. Is there another way to remove them that may
work?
--
Henry
