On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 10:19:16PM -0600, Bob Tracy wrote: > The subject program has a rather sizable memory leak on Alpha. Here's a link to a relevant bug report: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=802306 Also, it does no good to stop the packagekit service: it simply restarts automatically the next time some package-manipulation activity occurs. --Bob