On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
> The problem the last person who reported this had was some kind of > weird config file. Assuming that is not your problem you may want to > try rm /var/cache/apt/*.bin actually the trick was the apt.conf afterall. the line: APT::Cache-Limit "4000000"; was missing a zero :-) I'm thinking: this is not well documented apt.conf feature in the example file, until I read the manpage I thought it meant the size in KB of the disk cache at /var/apt/archives (now I see there is no parameter to limit that size btw? different issue) ok, removed that line, problem solved. btw, the /usr/doc/apt files don't mention an address for feature requests, could you pass this to the right person please: when running the actual apt-get upgrade or dist-upgrade, I always have several mirrors set up, since none are close or fast. at times my 128K ISDN line is not really used to a quarter of its capacity. I'd like apt, when seeing the same file with same size, date, version etc exists on more sites, to round robin the download and paralelize it, like it does during apt-get update. 60 megs of updates (like today on sid) would actually download about 20 megs from each of three sites. in the case of slow international links like I have here in Israel, it means using the bandwidth better, cuttng DL time to about a half (2 to 1 hour improvemen. at the moment, a file will be attempted from a different mirror only if it gets a 404 from the first one. Thanks for your time! Ira Abramov.
