Re: d-i runs out of RAM on 32 MB machine with 1 GB hard drive

[Emanuele Rocca <ema@debian.org>]

Hello Martin,

* Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>, [2006-11-22 11:04 +0100]:
>  * Emanuele Rocca <ema@debian.org> [2006-11-22 00:37]:
>  > And the creation of an ext3 fs on /dev/sda1 fails due to ssh going out
>  > of memory.
>  
>  But it works if swap on /dev/sda5 is larger?

I've tried this morning with a bigger sda5, but without luck.

fdisk -l /dev/sda:
/dev/sda1            1        1      112     899608+    83  Linux Native
/dev/sda2          112      112      124      96390      5  DOS Extended
/dev/sda5          113      113      124      96358+    82  Linux Swap

/var/log/syslog:
Nov 22 09:58:01 kernel: Free swap  = 90140kB
Nov 22 09:58:01 kernel: Total swap = 96348kB
Nov 22 09:58:01 kernel: Free swap:        90140kB
Nov 22 09:58:01 kernel: 8192 pages of RAM
Nov 22 09:58:01 kernel: 429 free pages
Nov 22 09:58:01 kernel: 681 reserved pages
Nov 22 09:58:01 kernel: 1229 slab pages
Nov 22 09:58:01 kernel: 664 pages shared
Nov 22 09:58:01 kernel: 1552 pages swap cached
Nov 22 09:58:01 kernel: Out of Memory: Kill process 4024 (sshd) score 96 and children.
Nov 22 09:58:01 kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 4049 (sshd).

There was another terminal open with a tail -f on /var/log/syslog, which
could be an explaination of the failure, given that it was indeed using
some resources.

I'll further investigate this issue tonight.

Other systems affected besides the nslu2?

ciao,
    ema