On Sat, 11 Sep 2004, Fabrice Lorrain wrote: > On my sid box, dpkg has been crashing for the last 15 days. Digging a > bit I found that dpkg needs above 100Mo of RAM nowdays to be able to proceed > on > this box. Killing a bunch of application does solve the pb.
> (Reading database ... 462457 files and directories currently installed.) Just how much do you have installed? Tell us the size of all *.list files in /var/lib/dpkg/info? That's about how much memory it needs.
