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I am running a virtualized CentOS 6.3 on a Windows 7 computer. The computer (4 GB RAM) is connected to a corporate network.

When I run yum update, it shows some progress, then eventually the VM (2 GB RAM) freezes, this has happened nearly 5 times now.

I've also tried updating using the graphic package manager, same thing happens, any ideas why this is happening?

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  • Have you tried yum clean all first? Commented Aug 24, 2012 at 2:15

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The YUM installer allocates memory and mirror plugins create threads. I managed to update a VPS(128k) running Centos 6.0 to 6.6 as follows:

  • edit /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/fastestmirror.conf and set maxthreads to 1
  • stop as many processes as possible. For example: service stop httpd
  • remove any unwanted packages. For example: yum remove man-pages

  • Run the following script/commands:

    #!/bin/bash date yum clean all echo "Starting Update........." for package in `yum -q check-update | awk '{print $1}'` do echo "*** Updating $package" yum -y update $package done yum clean all yum -y update date
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