Samuel Thibault, le Tue 26 Aug 2014 15:46:25 +0200, a écrit : > Steven Chamberlain, le Tue 26 Aug 2014 14:10:51 +0100, a écrit : > > It's odd that there still seemed to be ~50% free memory when this > > problem happened, though. Is there some maximum size that the > > linux-i386 root ramdisk can grow to? > > There seems to be something odd somewhere indeed. Just trying to update > the lowmem value for amd64 brings me from 109MiB to 164MiB, that's a big > jump! > > I guess the kernel somehow now has a heuristic to limit the rootfs size. > When using 163MiB, I hit a bug when lvm tries to start, and indeed / is > said to be full while "free" shows 44MiB free.
In /proc/mounts, one can read for the rootfs on / a size= value, which seems to be half the memory size. That's probably the culprit, perhaps it can be worked around somehow for d-i at least. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org