Subject: Bug#3785: perl_5.003-2.deb (in "rex") and "mirror"

From: [email-masked] (Bruce Perens)
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 96 12:16 PDT

Package: perl
Version: 5.003-2

I installed perl_5.003-2.deb on my system. Every time I run "mirror" to
mirror the Debian distribution to my private archive, it rattles the disk
for a while and then says "Out of memory!". This did not happen with the
Perl 5.002 package in "buzz".

	Thanks

	Bruce
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From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 96 23:54 EDT

Bruce> Package: perl
  Bruce> Version: 5.003-2
  Bruce> 
  Bruce> I installed perl_5.003-2.deb on my system. Every time I run "mirror"
  Bruce> to mirror the Debian distribution to my private archive, it rattles
  Bruce> the disk for a while and then says "Out of memory!". This did not
  Bruce> happen with the Perl 5.002 package in "buzz".

Odd. It works for me with the same perl_5.003-2.  Note that Michael Shields
reported a bug on perl today, concerning the installation. I had noted myself
that perl_5.002 had left
	/usr/lib/perl5/i486-linux/5.002
on my box which I nuked manually. Can that be it?

How much RAM do you have? How much of Debian do you mirror? How much memory
does mirror usually claim (as reported by top and ps)? Here, on a 16 MB Ram
box, I mirror around 195 MB and see around 6 MB used by mirror (according to
top). 

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From: "Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." <[email-masked]>
Date: 17 Jul 1996 00:41:54 -0700

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>Perl 5.002 package in "buzz".

I've been hitting mirror pretty hard and I haven't been able to get it
to do this.  It shouldn't matter, but what version of mirror are you
using?

Darren
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