[Devil-linux-develop] [ devil-linux-Bugs-795704 ] save-config doesn't work with 16 MB

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Bugs item #795704, was opened at 2003-08-26 19:13
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Category: Base System
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Heiko Zuerker (smiley73)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: save-config doesn't work with 16 MB

Initial Comment:
Bruce Smith wrote:

> I had a weird thing this morning while running

save-config, where it

> aborted in a very strange way (in VMware).  To make a

long story short,

> after a lot of traces, manual "tar" commands, and

head beating, I

> figured out it was because my VMware was set to 16MB

of memory.

> 

> This is a fresh boot with a blank floppy.  It seems

like there is enough

> memory in 16MB to run tar, but when the "j" option

kicks in, bzip2 loads

> and aborts tar.

> 

> I increased my memory in VMware to 32MB and

save-config runs fine there

> (except for the "diff" part which I don't care about).

> 

> We might want NOT want to advertise DL will run in

16MB of memory, if

> people cannot save their configuration on that size

machine.  The other

> option would be to use some busybox commands in

save-config instead of

> the standard ones ... (or not :)



Damned. Of course that was a function I didn't test.

It's worth a try to use just for this function the

busybox tar.

Can you take care of it? I have too many other things.



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