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

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

Hi!

On Tue, 2014-10-21 at 21:17:24 +0200, Christian Hofstaedtler wrote:
> 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.

Actually the most useful thing to use in such cases is something like
-D77777, and attach that. you might want to stop it at some point to
avoid filling the disk though.

Thanks,
Guillem