Re: dpkg fails to allocte memory ?
B Thomas <thomas.1037@osu.edu> writes:
> malloc failed (65552 bytes): Cannot allocate memory
> dpkg: failed to realloc for variable buffer: Cannot allocate memory
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
> Please note I have 128 Mb or ram and am able to run xfree86 and
> other programs well.
> My kernel version is 2.2.17 and the dpkg version is 1.6.14 .
Linux 2.2.17 has some problems with virtual memory management. Perhaps
the dpkg problem is related to this. Does linux log something like
"VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for [dpkg]"?
I suggest to install Linux 2.2.18 + Andrea Arcangeli's
VM-global-2.2.18pre25 Patch, which can be found on a kernel.org mirror
under people/andrea or Linux >= 2.2.19pre2, which has this VM patch
included.
hth,
moritz
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