Bug 304015

Summary: Could not install on T60 x86_64 with 512 MByte RAM
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 10.3 Reporter: Danny Al-Gaaf <dalgaaf>
Component: InstallationAssignee: E-mail List <yast2-maintainers>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity: Critical    
Priority: P5 - None CC: snwint
Version: Beta 2   
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Hardware: x86-64   
OS: Other   
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Description Danny Al-Gaaf 2007-08-23 19:36:21 UTC 
I tried to install a Beta2 on a IBM/Lenovo T60 x86_64 machine with 512 MByte RAM, but it wasn't possible. After package selection (and also before) the system get slow and I can't move the mouse. Top show me the complete RAM was used, no free mem available. After some minutes the the installation get killed (assume by OOM-killer). 

On the secon try on the same machine with enable a existing swap partition everything work as expected.
Comment 2 Katarina Machalkova 2007-08-27 10:54:41 UTC 
Hm, I though this has something to do with hw requirements ..
Anyway, please attach yast2 logs (if possible)
Comment 3 Jiri Srain 2007-09-04 13:33:36 UTC 
Danny, was the problem with the amount of memory the y2base process consumed, or the size of the logs (/var/log/YaST2/*), which are stored in ramdisk?
Comment 4 Stanislav Visnovsky 2007-09-11 09:28:38 UTC 
No feedback, please, reopen if happens again with Beta3 or later.

The logs size is greatly reduced for Beta3.