Yum Memory Error !!!!

If you are getting  "MemoryError" while doing yum update or yum install ,follow the steps shown below:

Solution

# ulimit -a

The output for this will be obtained as :

root@server1 [~]# ulimit -a

core file size          (blocks, -c) 0

data seg size           (kbytes, -d) unlimited

scheduling priority             (-e) 19

file size               (blocks, -f) unlimited

pending signals                 (-i) 139264

max locked memory       (kbytes, -l) 32

max memory size         (kbytes, -m) 10000

open files                      (-n) 1024

pipe size            (512 bytes, -p) 8

POSIX message queues     (bytes, -q) 819200

real-time priority              (-r) 0

stack size              (kbytes, -s) 10240

cpu time               (seconds, -t) unlimited

max user processes              (-u) 15

virtual memory          (kbytes, -v) 262144

file locks                      (-x) unlimited

The reason for such memory error  is because of virtual memory and max. memory size. It should be unlimited, otherwise it will show memory error.

# ulimit -m unlimited 

#ulimit -v unlimited

  Then run yum again........