Bug#132476: dpkg: dselect install eat 100% CPU time

["Alex Buloichik" <a.buloichik@sam-solutions.net>]

Hello, Wichert!
You wrote to "Alex Buloichik" <a.buloichik@sam-solutions.net>;
<132476@bugs.debian.org> on Tue, 5 Feb 2002 19:06:04 +0100:

 WA> Previously Alex Buloichik wrote:
 >>  When I select some new packages for install, and leave dselect to
 >> night for install new packages, on the morning dselect eat 100% cpu
 >> time.
 >>  I leave dselect by command:

 WA> Can you look with top which process exactly is eating the cpu time?
 WA> I suspect it is not dselect but something else that dselect runs.

This is begin of "top" command result :

 11:30:53 up 4 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.82, 0.34, 0.13
50 processes: 46 sleeping, 4 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:   0.0% user,  23.9% system,  76.1% nice,   0.0% idle
Mem:    256040K total,   137332K used,   118708K free,    16412K buffers
Swap:        0K total,        0K used,        0K free,    69808K cached

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
  716 root      18   2   884  884   680 R N  99.6  0.3   0:45 dselect
  683 alex73    10   0   992  992   780 R     0.3  0.3   0:00 top
    1 root       8   0   524  524   460 S     0.0  0.2   0:04 init
    2 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 keventd
    3 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 kapm-idled
    4 root      19  19     0    0     0 SWN   0.0  0.0   0:00 ksoftirqd_CPU0
    5 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 kswapd
    6 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 bdflush
    7 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 kupdated
    8 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 kreiserfsd


WBR, Alex.