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Re: dselect can not allocate memory



is this right in i see only 2MB of swap  on a machine with 14MB of ram ? i
make it rule for myself to have 128MB swap for every physical hdd
installed, even with 256MB ram i still have 256MB swap (only using 4MB of
it though)

MemTotal:    253164 kB
MemFree:       5664 kB
MemShared:    70652 kB
Buffers:      72544 kB
Cached:      103688 kB
SwapTotal:   267108 kB
SwapFree:    262228 kB


nate

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On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:

> I am trying to install some stuff using dselect, but it tells me that
> can not allocate memory, returns error 1
> My status:
> # free
>                 total           used         free      shared
> buffers         cached
> Mem       14056        4092        9964     1484
> 196              1752
> -/+  buffers/cached:   2144        11912
> Swap:      1980         1320         660
> 
> # df -h
>                                 Used        Available
> Capacity         Mounted/on
> /dev/hda1  1.5G        489M      930M            34%                /
> 
> I suppose that I need to increase the swap space, but I am not sure. I
> don't know how to do it without reinstalling the whole thing againg from
> zero. Please help.
> Thanks
> Antonio.
> 
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