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Re: dpkg: consumes all available RAM and crashes, during configure phase



Christian Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org> (2014-10-21):
> I too see dpkg hang in the configure phase and consuming all the
> memory it can get.
> 
> strace didn't yield anything useful apart from repeated brk() calls.

In these situations, something like gdb would probably more helpful than
strace. (At least to learn in which area it's currently spinning, which
might give you some clue.)

Mraw,
KiBi.

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