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Yum + VPS + low memory

Бывает такая фигня с yum‘ом на VPSках с памятью <=256M, когда пытаешься сделать какое то телодвижение с yum‘ом, он вываливается с таким бектрасом:

-bash-3.2# yum search foobar
Loading «fastestmirror» plugin
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* epel: ftp.nluug.nl
Traceback (most recent call last):
File «/usr/bin/yum», line 29, in ?
yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
File «/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py», line 105, in main
result, resultmsgs = base.doCommands()
File «/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py», line 293, in doCommands
return self.yum_cli_commands[self.basecmd].doCommand(self, self.basecmd, self.extcmds)
File «/usr/share/yum-cli/yumcommands.py», line 383, in doCommand
return base.search(extcmds)
File «/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py», line 867, in search
for (po, matched_value) in matching:
File «/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py», line 1313, in searchGenerator
for sack in self.pkgSack.sacks.values():
File «/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py», line 537, in <lambda>
pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(),
File «/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py», line 392, in _getSacks
self.repos.populateSack(which=repos)
File «/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/repos.py», line 214, in populateSack
self.doSetup()
File «/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/repos.py», line 66, in doSetup
self.ayum.plugins.run(‘postreposetup’)
File «/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/plugins.py», line 169, in run
func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs))
File «/usr/lib/yum-plugins/fastestmirror.py», line 90, in postreposetup_hook
repomirrors[str(repo)] = FastestMirror(repo.urls).get_mirrorlist()
File «/usr/lib/yum-plugins/fastestmirror.py», line 142, in get_mirrorlist
self._poll_mirrors()
File «/usr/lib/yum-plugins/fastestmirror.py», line 155, in _poll_mirrors
pollThread.start()
File «/usr/lib/python2.4/threading.py», line 416, in start
_start_new_thread(self.__bootstrap, ())
thread.error: can’t start new thread