Bug#166758: apt: DynamicMMap too static?

[Marius Gedminas <mgedmin@codeworks.lt>]

Followup-For: Bug #166758
Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4

If your sources.list has too many sources, apt will bail out during
'Reading Package Lists' phase with a "Dynamic MMap ran out of room"
error.

This cannot be fixed by increasing a magic value (I'm guessing
APT:Cache-Limit) in apt.conf, because in the code the DynamicMMap
constructor is never passed a WorkSpace argument and the default value
of 2 MBytes is always used.

Why cannot dynamic mmap be more dynamic and increase workspace
automatically?

Or at least a working apt.conf value should be provided for us crazy
users who try to have all Debian branches from at least two nearest
mirrors in our sources.list/

-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux zeta 2.4.19 #1 Fri Aug 30 13:15:28 EET 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=lt_LT.ISO-8859-13

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.2.5-14.3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2        1:2.95.4-7 The GNU stdc++ library

Marius Gedminas
-- 
If "con" is the opposite of "pro", then what is the opposite of progress?