Bug#370219: apt: Dependency tree building thrashes small machines
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 03:53:38AM -0400, Vermont wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.6.44.1
> Severity: important
>
> On a machine with 8MB of RAM and 128MB of swap, apt-get is virtually
> unusable - the building of the dependency tree causes incredible
> amounts of swap thrash. It takes apt-get about an hour to finish, if
> the out of memory killer doesn't get to it first.
>
> Reproducible by booting linux with mem=8M.
My system (debian/sid with linux 2.6.16-2-k7) does not even boot with
mem=8M. I get loads of "Out of Memory" errors on startup when booting
into single-user-mode. I'm sorry, but this is not really "Severity:
important". It seems like mem=24M was the smalltest that booted for me
and apt is pretty usable then.
Cheers,
Michael
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