Hi, answering myself:
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 03:32:55PM +0200, Steffen Grunewald wrote: > after doing some installs twice and getting different results I found > that dpkg-query had been killed by the VM. > This is probably related to the quite large number of packages I was > trying to install (although it happened in script default/S01 when > installing the kernel). > There's no indication for memory requirements in the Fai Guide (or I > missed it again). Using 192MB, everything is fine - I even was able to install another kernel (2.4.26-1-k7-smp since this is an Athlon box) *and* the corresponding i2c and lm-sensors packages... > Is there a way to limit memory consumption somewhat to get reproducible > results? This would still be interesting for smaller machines. Isn't the swap being used for installation? Cheers, Steffen -- Steffen Grunewald * * * Merlin cluster admin (http://pandora.aei.mpg.de) Albert-Einstein-Institut (MPI Gravitationsphysik, http://www.aei.mpg.de) Science Park Golm, Am M�hlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam, Germany e-mail: steffen.grunewald(*)aei.mpg.de * +49-331-567-{fon:7233,fax:7298}
