[maemo-users] Not enough memory

[From: Eero Tamminen]

Hi,

Hamalainen Kimmo (Nokia-D/Helsinki) wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 11:02 +0100, Tamminen Eero (Nokia-D/Helsinki)
>> ext Jason wrote:
>>> On a more technical, get-it-done approach, my problem with OOM was
>>> too much crap in /var/cache/apt/archive/ .  There are two ways to
>>> handle this in a more user friendly manner.  Instead of the OOM
>>> error message, offer to run 'apt-get clean', and/or symlink
>>> /var/cache/apt out to /home/.var.cache.apt .  Which I just tried,
>>> and seems to wfm.
>>>
>>> $ sudo gainroot
>>> # cd /var/cache/
>>> # mv apt /home/.var.cache.apt
>>> # ln -sf ../../home/.var.cache.apt apt
>> AFAIK:
>>
>> * Application manager doesn't have caches on rootfs, but on
>>    the 2GB partition.
> 
> Apparently it still has them on rootfs, see the internal bug 144371.

That bug is about using apt directly, not application manager.
It's the same as this public one:
	https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5746


> I
> don't see it necessary to keep these caches on rootfs since the .deb
> cache is not mandatory and the rest (.bin files) can be regenerated
> anytime.


	- Eero