Can update cause memory overloaded?

[Derek Broughton]

Frank McCormick wrote:

> On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 23:45:50 -0400
> Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu> wrote:
> 
>> Frank McCormick wrote:
>> 
>> >    Definitely. Run "sudo apt-get (or aptitude) clean" in a terminal.
>> > That will erase all the downloaded and stored files
>> > from /var/apt/cache
>> 
>> Doesn't that ever get cleaned/limited in size automatically?
> 
> 
>    It never has on this machine - maybe somebody else has
> the answer to that one.

I believe you need to set a value in /etc/apt/conf.d/.  For years, my system
_did_ get autocleaned - I think because one of the pre-ubuntu Debian-based
systems I used set it automatically - but since doing a fresh install of
Ubuntu it stopped.
-- 
derek