I have the following situation with my CentOs 5.6 64 bit:
[root@host ~]# yum update
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
..and thats it. Nothing comes back, ctrl+c does not have any effect, it's getting stuck.
Any thoughts what to look after?
I'm guessing you are running a virtual machine or you are otherwise restricting yum's memory footprint.
If this is the case, you are simply running out of memory. You can try:
ulimit -m unlimited
ulimit -v unlimited
yum --noplugins update
If that does not work, please post the output from top after pressing M to sort by memory utilization.
dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile.dat bs=1k count=512000; mkswap /swapfile.dat; swapon /swapfile.dat
), then adding it to /etc/fstab.
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says?