Thread: Memory claimed to be full but I've got Gigs to spare
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itpastorn is offline itpastorn
2010-05-20 , 23:18
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OK. Apparently I have 43.7M of apt-cache

Code:
Nokia-N900-42-11:/var/cache/apt# du -sh *
43.7M	archives
1.4M	pkgcache.bin
1.3M	srcpkgcache.bin
That seems like a lot... And the culprit is Fennec!

Code:
Nokia-N900-42-11:/var/cache/apt/archives# ls -lh
Nokia-N900-42-11:/var/cache/apt/archives# ls -lh f*
12.4M Apr  9 10:59 fennec_1.1~a2~20100409011013_armel.deb
12.4M Apr 16 11:33 fennec_1.1~a2~20100416011058_armel.deb
11.9M May 20 10:54 fennec_2.0~a1~20100520010105_armel.deb
So my solution was this:
Code:
apt-get clean
Voila! 24 % free memory.

Which begs the question: Could we move the apt-cache to another partition?

(Note to self! Fennec nightly is now 2.0! Perhaps that is what broke Weave.)