[Users] Is apt-get really such a hog or am I doing something wrong? Debian issue

[Jim Archer]

Hi All...

I' trying to run a Debian x86_64 VPS from a prebuilt template I DLed from 
systs, but it seems that apt-get is a major resource hog.  It seems that 
the more resources I give it, the more it wants.  Currently, I am running 
on the sample 'B' configuration from the wiki and still see apt-get failing 
because it can not allocate RAM and tcp buffers.  From user_beancounters:

       uid  resource                     held              maxheld 
barrier                limit              failcnt
     1001:  kmemsize                  1082179              2521031 
2457600              2621400                  133
            tcprcvbuf                       0               349072 
319488               524288                  244


Is there a way around this, or do I just have to allocate huge amounts or 
resources to the VPS?  I really don't want to do that if I can avoid it, 
because I'm hoping to get more than 16 or so VPSs going.

Am I just doing something wrong?  Here are the errors I see:

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Setting up makedev (2.3.1-83) ...
/sbin/MAKEDEV: warning: can't read /proc/devices
/sbin/MAKEDEV: line 160: /bin/rm: Cannot allocate memory
/sbin/MAKEDEV: line 138: /bin/rm: Cannot allocate memory
/sbin/MAKEDEV: fork: Cannot allocate memory
/sbin/MAKEDEV: /sbin/MAKEDEV: Too many open files in system
/var/lib/dpkg/info/makedev.postinst: fork: Cannot allocate memory
dpkg: error processing makedev (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 254
Errors were encountered while processing:
 makedev




Thanks...