Martin Bochnig wrote: > On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Danek Duvall <danek.duvall at sun.com> wrote: > [...] >>> conary and IPS are implemented in the same languages (Python and for >>> its backends C), it must be possible to fix IPS. >> Undoubtedly. >> >> For now, though, if you want to move forward, you have a couple of options: >> >> - add more swap >> >> - free up more swap (looks like you had a hundred megs or so in /tmp) >> >> - quit the window system and upgrade from console or from ssh >> >>> As you see I removed all cross-postings from CC, because only the >>> engineers at caiman-discuss can help here. >> Actually, the folks on caiman-discuss can't help much at all, except those >> of us on the packaging team who are subscribed. pkg-discuss is the >> appropriate alias (so pkg-discuss copied, and caiman-discuss bcc'ed). > > > > > The caiman installer should default to a much bigger swap size on > low-memory configurations. > > /dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/swap should be larger than 512MB, otherwise > installing the redistributable cluster (or however it is now called) > will fail. >
Please file a bug and we can consider altering the sizing algorithm. In the meantime, "zfs set volsize=1024m" rpool/swap" ought to do the job. > Nothing was copied by myself to /tmp. > It was a just booted fresh install, mint condition. > > I CC'ed this single message to caiman again, because defining swap > size at install time does affect the installer. > Otherwise you are right. I just subscribed to pkg-discuss after a > year-long break. > In my opinion OpenSolaris _must_ 100% function on everything equal or > higher than 256MB of RAM. It is possible and I will fight for it. > Everything else is poor and wasteful design. I'd happily consider contributions that would allow for installation with 256 MB of RAM, but let's not start with the "poor and wasteful" stuff. Every project makes tradeoffs, and that's one we've chosen to make in the work so far. Dave
