On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 06:03:17PM +0200, Jean-Louis Crouzet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Thanks for your answer. I was you know hunting for free memory since my > system is only having 128MB which tend to be not enough those days (even > with Linux).
Yes, that's sadly not much RAM nowadays. Just to put some numbers to what I was saying, here's what "free" shows on my computer before and after "aptitude update": [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/programming/aptitude/head$ free -t total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 1026568 871072 155496 0 55812 461196 -/+ buffers/cache: 354064 672504 Swap: 3012148 49404 2962744 Total: 4038716 920476 3118240 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/programming/aptitude/head$ free -t total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 1026568 877572 148996 0 56044 466888 -/+ buffers/cache: 354640 671928 Swap: 3012148 49404 2962744 Total: 4038716 926976 3111740 As you can see, there's a decrease in the free space of something like 6MB between the "before" and "after" snapshots. But if you look at the -/+ buffers/cache line, you can see that it's almost identical between the two runs. So basically all the change is in the buffer cache, which is only to be expected when running an I/O-intensive program. This will have an impact in a low-memory situation, though, since reading all those package lists will kick other stuff out of memory that you might care more about. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]