memory requirements / low mem installs

[Steffen Grunewald]

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

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