Re: dpkg issues
On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Jeff Coppock wrote:
> Mark Janssen, 2001-Jul-23 12:46 +0200:
>> On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 01:50:05AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > > I think I've found my problem. Not enough memory to go
>> > > around. This is an old machine with only 32MB of memory and
>> > > watch top while running apt-get install I can see available
>> > > memory drop to 1.2MB and then the error hit. I'm upgrading
>> > > to 128MB (max for this system) and expect this to fix it.
>> > >
>> >
>> > that seems odd. I have run Debian on 16 and 32 mb systems fairly
>> > recently. It just gets slower and slower .....
>>
>> Maybe you (sean) have (more) swapspace, and Jeff does not... then
>> it could still be lack of enough memory.
>>
>> Jeff, do you have any swapspace configured, how much is used ??
I had the same issue and it was only due to the unconfigured swap. I
didn't set it correctly during the initial setup. As soon as I turned
on swap, things went back to normal. As a side note, this was on the
machine with 16 Mb of RAM and 2.2.something kernel (about a year ago).
Peter.
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