Re: synaptic bombs!

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 09 Mar 2012 07:09:07 -0600, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote:

> This is debian testing, with recent updates.
> 
> When starting synaptic, it explodes, with the following message:
> 
> "E: Unable to increase the size of the MMap as the limit of 8388608
> bytes is already reached.
> E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room. Please increase the size of
> APT::Cache-Limit. Current value: 25165824. (man 5 apt.conf) 

(...)

I wonder how can we know what's the current value set for the "APT::Cache-
Limit".

"apt-config dump | grep -i cache" displays nothing about this limit and 
my "/var/cache/apt/" directory was 2.5 GiB of size (now 0 bytes because 
it has been cleaned).

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón