Comment 59 for bug 107188

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Scott Kitterman (kitterman) wrote : Re: [MASTER] [kde] Upgrade tool crashed with " Cannot allocate memory" (edgy -> feisty)

$ top | grep python
24518 root 17 0 132m 92m 46m R 3.5 36.9 0:45.67 python
24518 root 17 0 132m 92m 46m D 16.4 37.0 0:46.17 python
24518 root 18 0 750m 156m 23m D 35.1 62.5 0:47.23 python
24518 root 18 0 750m 155m 21m D 4.8 62.0 0:47.40 python
24518 root 18 0 750m 160m 20m D 3.6 64.3 0:47.51 python
24518 root 18 0 750m 165m 12m D 6.3 66.2 0:47.70 python

The jump from 132m to 750m (the size of the swap file on this system) was almost instantaneous when the update-manager transitioned from download packages to starting the upgrade. So the system is truly out of memory it would appear.