On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 07:55:47PM +0200, Richard Palfalvi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have installed Sarge on my laptop and I am running often into the
> following problem when I try to install packets with apt-get or also
> with dselect.
>
> Usually if there more than one packet to install or update dpkg shows
> the following error-message during configuring the packets downloaded:
>
> not enough ram available to continue (or configure) the packets you have
> chosen to install (or something like this) - to many errors during
> installation process - stopping the installation.
>
> I never had this kind of errors with other debian-installations before!
>
> I have an extra /var-partition with 1.5GB space, and my laptop has 128MB
> of RAM. Why is this not enough when it worked with former
> installations???
I'm going to guess one of the following:
1. Some program you're running is hogging memory.
Run top, then hit Shift-M.
Note that top often gets confused by:
1. mmap
Your Xserver will almost invariably be listed as the biggest
memory hog, but it isn't usually. Subtract the amount of RAM on
your video card to get a better reading of Xfree's memory use.
36M != 4M.
2. Threads
Look at this:
2428 stefan 0 0 29100 28M 17376 S 0.0 22.8 1:44 /usr/bin/galeon-bin
http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2
2517 stefan 0 0 29100 28M 17376 S 0.0 22.8 0:00 /usr/bin/galeon-bin
http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2
2518 stefan 0 0 29100 28M 17376 S 0.0 22.8 0:01 /usr/bin/galeon-bin
http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2
2519 stefan 0 0 29100 28M 17376 S 0.0 22.8 0:00 /usr/bin/galeon-bin
http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2
2604 stefan 0 0 29100 28M 17376 S 0.0 22.8 0:01 /usr/bin/galeon-bin
http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2
24645 stefan 0 0 29100 28M 17376 S 0.0 22.8 0:00 /usr/bin/galeon-bin
http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2
If you see a bunch of processes with the same name and memory use,
chances are only one is using memory.
3. Shared data
If you have 20 Perl programs running, there will only be one copy
of /usr/bin/perl in memory.
2. Swap
Installing packages shouldn't need swap, but if you have much less
than you used to, some programs will run out of memory. (Due to
design constraints, Linux will SIGKILL any program that wants memory
when you are out of both RAM and swap, so make sure you (can) have
more swap then you'll use.)
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