tags 612877 + fixed-upstream confirmed
kthxbye
Hi Antonio,
thanks for your bug report.
Antonio Galea wrote:
> When installing dphys-swapfile on a small ARM embedded with 64Mb of RAM
> should configure 128Mb of swap file - instead, it reports I want a 128Gb
> swap, then trims it back to the configured maximum of 2G - and fills my
> uSD card trying to create it.
>
> Memory detection is at /sbin/dphys-swapfile:51, namely
>
> MEMSIZE="`head -1 /proc/meminfo | awk '{ print $2 }'`"
>
> Both my FoxG20 ARM embedded board and my desktop machine report memory
> in kB, but along in the script all computations are done as if meminfo
> gives MB instead.
> The line
>
> MEMSIZE="`head -1 /proc/meminfo | awk '{ print int($2/1024) }'`"
>
> might offer a naive fix for this issue, but a better approach
> is to actually read from meminfo the correct multiplier.
This is a bug in the workaround for #564466, a missing /1024 as you
noticed. Upstream has rewritten that section completely already, but
not yet released a new version.
JFTR: This bug has also been reported against Ubuntu at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dphys-swapfile/+bug/706764
> As a side note, it would be way better if the script could refuse to
> create a swap file larger than the available disk space.
You can set CONF_MAXSWAP in /etc/dphys-swapfile to set a manual limit.
IIRC the default manual limit is 2 GB which is obviously not enough
for your case.
This problem will probably be fixed with the fix for
http://bugs.debian.org/596187.
Regards, Axel
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