Steve Lamb wrote: > Tim Connors wrote: >> Or what about >> automatically doubling each time it runs out of room, and starting again >> (along with an appropriate warning message as to how not to keep doing >> this)? > > Kinda defeats the purpose of limiting the amount of space the process > uses. I mean which is better, a clear error message or the machine being > dropped into swap hell? > First, there isn't a clear error message - a clear message would tell you what to do about it - and, second, if they need more memory to do what they want to do, they should be able to. If you really think it's a bad thing, put up warning messages until they manually override the limits in apt.conf.
When I ran into this some months ago, I googled and found an answer, but it wasn't enough because the person who wrote the solution didn't have my configuration. So I had to mess around until I found a number large enough to work for me. A clear error message would tell you how large a limit you needed to set in apt.conf. -- derek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
