memory usage of smart

[Jeff Johnson]

On Feb 9, 2006, at 12:04 PM, Lic. Martin Marques wrote:

> I was seeing some serious memory problems when using smart and  
> other apps on my local computer. Today I found out that smart was  
> the one using all the memory, because after closing it I had an  
> extra 80Mb free of RAM and 43Mb extra swap space.
>

How large a transaction? 80 Mb ain't much if 500+ pkgs are candidates  
for upgrade.

How many repositories do you have configured?

What operating system and what version of rpm?

> I really can't believe that smart would use that amount of memory.
>

I can.

> Is there a way for smart to use a more realistic amount of memory,  
> or am I stuck here?
>

Perhaps.

73 de Jeff