Re: dpkg fails on low-memory-hardware

2011-02-19 Thread Martin Klaiber
Raphael Hertzog wrote: > How do you know that they are not using swap ? When I tried to upgrade (btw the currently installed Debian is Sarge not Etch, sorry), I could see in top how memory consumption of apt-get or aptitude and dpkg increased but swap wasn't used. > I don't know of any reason w

dpkg fails on low-memory-hardware

2011-02-18 Thread Martin Klaiber
Hello everybody, this is my first post to this list. Some time ago I wanted to upgrade an old laptop (Toshiba T4900CT, from 1994) from Debian Etch to Debian Lenny. Unfortunately dpkg (resp. apt-get or aptitude) was running out of memory. The maximum amount of RAM for this laptop is limited to 40 M