Christoph Biedl wrote: > this story isn't new: Older boxes with rather small memory. In my case, > DockStar with 128 Mbyte RAM. They still serve a job as e.g. a router, > but that limitation becomes more and more a problem. The biggest issue, > at least for me, is apt although it's just the bringer of the bad news: > The packages indexes became that big they no longer fit into memory. In > September 2015, there was a suggestion to create subsets of a release, > but I objected it will be more or less impossible to create them without > breaking some builds or installations for unresolved dependencies.
I have two Geode machines, that I use as firewalls - one is with 128MB RAM and the other with 256MB. I never had a problem upgrading them - both are on buster. Here the problem is systemd - it needs much more memory and honestly I do not see any use of it in the case. So I was wondering if your DockStars are 64bit - which I doubt, but still not sure if what you describe is what is described also here: https://www.mikrocontroller.net/articles/Dockstar I do not use apt, but apt-get directly. Is the same issue observable when using apt-get? If yes, could be that the problem you describe, is somewhere else?
