David Goodenough <david.goodenough <at> btconnect.com> writes: > xy may only use a tiny bit, but the combination of apt-get, dpkg and > xy seems to cause problems. Its not just BeagleBones, there are x86 > machines with just 64MB still on sale.
SOL then. It’s actually apt/dpkg that takes that much memory because, you know, a database listing >30000 binary packages in sid *does* take quite some RAM. We have the same problem on m68k, but you can’t do much against that (except, possibly, use a more memory-efficient internal representation in those tools). So, this means that, yes, you need a total of at least 128 MiB RAM+swap, if not more, to use apt/dpkg in sid (and recent releases were not much smaller). xz decompression is a nōn-issue on virtually all Debian systems. xz compression, now, may be an issue, but I still support it as long as the compression level is no larger than -6 (-7 for debug packages, should that be desired), and -e is only used in extreme cases (pun intended). (I have other issues with xz adoption, but they appear to not be an issue in Debian so I skip them here.) bye, //mirabilos ObCaptcha: unhelpful -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/loom.20131017t132726-...@post.gmane.org
