Hi Antonio, Antonio Galea wrote: > Boy, you are fast :-)
I'm on holidays and was working on Debian stuff anyways. :-) > > 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. > > Great to know that. I just decided I'll upload a fixed version to unstable and probably a current upstream snapshot to experimental. > > 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. > > Config options to define the required size and max size, for instance in > /etc/default/dphys-swapfile, with sensible defaults created at install time > would be very welcome. Personally, I'd rather leave the actual swap creation > to the user (leave the script disabled by default and warn me), instead of > blindly creating the file. Well, the software and the package were born for automated workstation installations. It's sole purpose is to automatically generate an appropriately sized swapfile (according to some rules) depending on the amount of RAM. I do not see so much usefulness in installing this package, but then not calling it automatically. > Detecting the available disk space and bail out complaining if not > enough is available would be sensible nonetheless, in case I'm so > clueless not to do a "df -H" before running setup. Indeed, but this is something that should be fixed upstream. Upstream Cc'ed. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE `- | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
