opkg fails with Out of memory on a device with 32 MB of RAM
Username: Vittorio Gambaletta (VittGam)
Origin: https://bugs.openwrt.org/index.php?do=details&task_id=120
This happens on a freshly installed image from downloads.lede-project.org for an ar71xx device with 4
MB
of flash and 32
MB
of RAM (TP-LINK TL-MR13U).
This didn’t happen with Chaos Calmer.
root@lede:~# cat /etc/banner _________ / /\ _ ___ ___ ___ / LE / \ | | | | | | / DE / \ | |__| _|| |) | _| /_/ LE \ |____|___|/|___| lede-project.org \ \ DE / \ LE \ / ----------------------------------------------------------- \ DE \ / Reboot (HEAD, r1439) ________/ -----------------------------------------------------------
root@lede:# opkg update
[...] (it succeeds)
root@lede:# opkg install foo
Collected errors:
- gz_open: fork: Out of memory.
- pkg_hash_add_from_file: Failed to open /var/opkg-lists/reboot_routing: Out of memory. root@lede:~# opkg update Collected errors:
- gz_open: fork: Out of memory.
- pkg_hash_add_from_file: Failed to open /var/opkg-lists/reboot_routing: Out of memory.
root@lede:
# free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 27828 15592 12236 668 1028 3352 -/+ buffers/cache: 11212 16616 Swap: 0 0 0 root@lede:# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/root 2048 2048 0 100% /rom tmpfs 13912 636 13276 5% /tmp tmpfs 13912 32 13880 0% /tmp/root tmpfs 512 0 512 0% /dev /dev/mtdblock3 576 212 364 37% /overlay overlayfs:/overlay 576 212 364 37% / root@lede:~#
Cheers,
Vittorio