Add 'APT::Cache-Limit 25165824;' to your /etc/apt/apt.conf file. Cheers, Bruno. On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 15:16, Dave wrote: > Recently whenever I try to "apt-get update" on my workstation, it gets > all of the package lists then runs out of memory trying to read them. > At least, that's how I interpret the tail end of the output: > > Reading Package Lists... Error! > E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room > E: Error occured while processing yelp (NewVersion1) > E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status > E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. > > My system has 512MB of RAM, most of which should be free, and plenty of > HD space. I also have 3 other Debian systems which don't have this > problem, all pointing to the same apt-proxy. I'm also pretty sure the > package list and status files are fine, but I don't know how to check > for certain. dpkg works fine, but I can't apt-get anything until this > is straightened out. > -- Bruno Diniz de Paula <diniz@cs.rutgers.edu> Rutgers University
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