Re: apt error, Dynamic MMap ran out of room

[Faheem Mitha <faheem@email.unc.edu>]

On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 10:36:02 -0500 (EST), Walter Tautz
<wtautz@math.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:

> E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
> E: Error occured while processing ifplugd (NewFileVer1)
> E: Problem with MergeList
> /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.de.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages
> E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
> 
> I am running woody with some packages from testing....

Take a look at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=166758

The bottom line is you need to modify apt.conf. The syntax should be 

APT::Cache-Limit "4194304";

(from /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz). This is the
current default, Jason Gunthorpe suggests changing it to 16777216 in
the bug report page above.

See /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz and man apt.conf
also.
                                               Faheem.