Re: update-menus going higher and higher
On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Hartmut Koptein wrote:
> > These day update-menus seems to hang, causing infinite load averages when doing
> > `apt-get upgrade -u'.
>
> i think it isn't a infinite loop, it is (sometimes) very recursivly but it will
> end after 5 - 20 minutes.
Well... at least it's something my box (128 MB RAM) cannot handle. I was happy
I could stop it when the load average was at 63 and 96 MB swap was in use... I
could do half of the dishwash while waiting for the X server performing the
switch to VC1 (a text console).
Greetings,
Geert
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