Re: Reducing apt's memory footprint (on small boxes)
Christoph Biedl wrote:
> this story isn't new: Older boxes with rather small memory. In my case,
> DockStar with 128 Mbyte RAM. They still serve a job as e.g. a router,
> but that limitation becomes more and more a problem. The biggest issue,
> at least for me, is apt although it's just the bringer of the bad news:
> The packages indexes became that big they no longer fit into memory. In
> September 2015, there was a suggestion to create subsets of a release,
> but I objected it will be more or less impossible to create them without
> breaking some builds or installations for unresolved dependencies.
I have two Geode machines, that I use as firewalls - one is with 128MB RAM
and the other with 256MB.
I never had a problem upgrading them - both are on buster. Here the problem
is systemd - it needs much more memory and honestly I do not see any use of
it in the case.
So I was wondering if your DockStars are 64bit - which I doubt, but still
not sure if what you describe is what is described also here:
https://www.mikrocontroller.net/articles/Dockstar
I do not use apt, but apt-get directly. Is the same issue observable when
using apt-get?
If yes, could be that the problem you describe, is somewhere else?
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