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Re: APT stopped working - MMap ran out of room



On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 10:48:33AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 09:53:02AM +0100, David Goodenough wrote:
> > On Monday 26 May 2003 09:26, Hamid wrote:
[snip]
> > > E: Dynamic MMap ran out of  room
[snip]
> > 
> > This error keeps coming up, and it strikes me that perhaps the default
> > size of the MMap needs to be changed.
> 
> It has been, in apt 0.5.5. (The problem still exists but has been pushed
> further away.)

How about calculating the default cache limit from the number of /^deb/
lines in sources.list? The user could still override it.

Cheers,
Nick

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