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To: VEGH Karoly <karoly.vegh@uta.at> From: Rob Mahurin <rob@utk.edu> Subject: Re: apt too big for its britches Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 11:53:57 -0400 On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 05:00:48PM +0200, VEGH Karoly wrote: > On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 05:00:57PM +0200, Rob Mahurin wrote: > > What, exactly, is running out of room here? I'm fine on memory and > > disk space. > > > > 10:43 $ sudo apt-get -u upgrade > > Reading Package Lists... Error! > > E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room > > E: Error occured while processing escputil (NewFileVer1) > > E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status > > E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. > > AFAIK apt has a default that limits his memory usage. > fix for the problem: > > charlie@marvin:~$ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/charlie > APT::Cache-Limit 8192000; > charlie@marvin:~$ > > (the filename can be just anything) > > hth That worked, you're my hero, have a nice day. === To: debian-user@lists.debian.org From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Subject: Re: apt too big for its britches Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 01:32:54 +0100 On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 05:00:48PM +0200, VEGH Karoly wrote: > On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 05:00:57PM +0200, Rob Mahurin wrote: > > 10:43 $ sudo apt-get -u upgrade > > Reading Package Lists... Error! > > E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room > > E: Error occured while processing escputil (NewFileVer1) > > E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status > > E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. > > AFAIK apt has a default that limits his memory usage. > fix for the problem: > > charlie@marvin:~$ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/charlie > APT::Cache-Limit 8192000; > charlie@marvin:~$ > > (the filename can be just anything) The filename should really just be "/etc/apt/apt.conf" - the .d directory is primarily there to make it easier to package related software like apt-listchanges, not so much for administrators' local changes. ===