I experienced that behaviour, too, 100% reproducible, so probably no coincidence. But I'd like to know what the hell opkg does there which fills all the memory?!
-- Marcel Am Montag, 6. Juli 2009 20:38:17 schrieb Yorick Moko: > or disable xserver.... > I also have seen the strange behaviour that with xserver stopped and a > swapfile of 128MB, i could not opkg upgrade navit, but when I typed > "opkg install navit" it did work > > but that can be 100% coincidence > > On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Xavier Cremaschi <[email protected]>wrote: > > Robin Paulson a écrit : > > > 2009/7/6 Christ van Willegen <[email protected]>: > > >> On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Jeffrey > > >> > > >> Ratcliffe<[email protected]> wrote: > > >>> It works if you set up a swapfile. > > >> > > >> Having to set up a swap file for an .ipk file of 3M in size still > > >> seems unreasonable... > > > > > > the ipk i installed was over 5MB - i presume it expands to some > > > huge size and is stored in ram. i tried the --tmpdir switch (which > > > i assumed would unpack it straight to disk rather than to ram) but > > > that didn't help at all > > > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/swapfile bs=1M count=128 > > mkswap /path/to/swapfile > > swapon /path/to/swapfile > > > > then retry. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
