Re: dynamic MMap ran out of room.. changing apt.conf file has no effect

["Jamin W. Collins" <jcollins@asgardsrealm.net>]

On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 09:46:20PM +0000, Adam Robson wrote:

> While trying to update or download using apt-get or dselect, i get the
> error message
> 
> E: dynamic MMap ran out of room
> and so on..
> 
> Creating the file /etc/apt/apt.conf, with contents 
> APT::Cache-Limit 25165824 has no effect.  I should have mentioned a
> couple other things:

I believe that line needs a ; at the end of it.  You should be able to
confirm that the setting took effect with the following:

   $ apt-config dump

and you're looking for a line like:

   APT::Cache-Limit "25165824";

-- 
Jamin W. Collins