Bug#271072: dpkg crashes. Too high memory footprint.
On Sat, 11 Sep 2004, Fabrice Lorrain wrote:
> On my sid box, dpkg has been crashing for the last 15 days. Digging a
> bit I found that dpkg needs above 100Mo of RAM nowdays to be able to proceed on
> this box. Killing a bunch of application does solve the pb.
> (Reading database ... 462457 files and directories currently installed.)
Just how much do you have installed? Tell us the size of all *.list files in
/var/lib/dpkg/info? That's about how much memory it needs.
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