Bug#535325: apt-cache fails in every action

[David Kalnischkies <kalnischkies+debian@gmail.com>]

Hello Nikos Kokkalis,

first of all: thanks for reporting your issue!
(i think many people will see this with the current situation on amd64)

> boris@i0n:~$ apt-cache rdepends wine
> terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
>  what():  std::bad_alloc
> Aborted

> APT::Cache-Limit "99999999999999999";

You set your Cache-Limit far to high.
This setting would require a total of
99 999 999 999 999 999 Bytes (= 99 Petabyte!)
of free RAM to generate a new package cache.
So please choose a value which is more realistic (and actually available).

You should use the default value if possible - if not increase the value
with this setting a bit and try again (Also consider removing source.list
entries you don't need - they will only waste space which apt needs here).


Best regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen,

David "DonKult" Kalnischkies


P.S.: Bugreports and Information why this setting is actually needed and
why it is not easy to made the dynamic MMap really dynamic can be found
in bugreport #195018 and his merged friends.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=195018