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Re: dpkg issues



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 ??

Mark Janssen                         Unix Consultant @ SyConOS IT
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