Re: APT uses 100% CPU and does nothing while trying to uncompress a file
On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Russell Coker wrote:
>
>> At the below URL you'll find a list of all the versions of all packages
>> on my system and a copy of the Packages.gz file that causes this (it
>> only happens for certain contents of the Packages.gz file). This has
>> happened before and happened today while trying to do a potato update.
>
>I would like a 'screen shot' of what APT is showing, and which process is
>consuming all of the CPU along with the exact version you are using.
Here is the "top" output:
9:20am up 16:44, 1 user, load average: 1.13, 0.64, 0.28
102 processes: 90 sleeping, 7 running, 2 zombie, 3 stopped
CPU states: 23.8% user, 1.4% system, 0.0% nice, 3.4% idle
Mem: 95496K av, 93204K used, 2292K free, 38444K shrd, 13312K buff
Swap: 173368K av, 38892K used, 134476K free 48452K cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
4272 root 19 0 656 656 528 R 0 90.2 0.6 2:16 http
4291 rjc 7 0 948 948 720 R 0 10.6 0.9 0:00 top
1 root 0 0 112 76 64 S 0 0.0 0.0 0:03 init
2 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0 0.0 0.0 0:01 kflushd
3 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0 0.0 0.0 0:21 kswapd
4 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0 0.0 0.0 0:00 md_thread
13 root 0 0 52 28 24 S 0 0.0 0.0 0:05 update
Here's the screen shot of the middle of the dselect "update" operation where
it's started spinning:
Get http://non-us.debian.org unstable/non-US Packages
Get http://ftp1.us.debian.org dists/slink/main/binary-i386/ Packages
Get http://debian.midco.net unstable/contrib Packages
Get http://debian.midco.net unstable/main Packages
Get http://debian.midco.net unstable/non-free Packages
92% [Packages `Waiting for file' 490k]
How do I provide more exact version information than the complete "dpkg -l"
output that I put on my web server?
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