Problem The current design of the DNF package manager can cause it to use quite large amounts of memory (into the hundreds of megabytes) for most operations. This can mean that DNF operations fail (due to being killed by the kernel’s out-of-memory handler) in low-memory environments, especially sys…

DNF operations use large amount of RAM and may fail in low-memory environments

kparal (Kamil Páral) May 16, 2024, 8:23am 3

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