Re: APT stopped working - MMap ran out of room
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 02:16:39PM +0200, Nicolas Kratz wrote:
> 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:
> > > 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.
-> deity@lists.debian.org
I was under the impression that it wasn't something you could calculate
directly from just the number of entries, anyway. The Debian unstable
archive is going to take more cache space than Joe Bloggs'
single-package repository. Using an estimation of how much unstable
takes isn't going to help, since that estimate will get out of date:
that's how we got into this mess in the first place.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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