Re: update-menus going higher and higher
On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 08:36:48PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > 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).
>
> I have had similar problems lately, I did a major upgrade the other
> day (about 200 packages upgraded and/or installed) which brought my
> system to a screeching halt with load averages over 30. Lots of
> update-menus and dpkg processes running.
>
> Funny thing was, the CPU was 80% to 90% idle. I was using all 64 megs
> of RAM and anywhere from 50 to 95 megs of swap. I have a feeling that
> was the problem, I've noticed disk performance to be really bad.
> (This is on a WallStreet Powerbook)
For me, disk performance is a bit better (U2W-SCSI 7200 RPM Quantum Viking
connected to a Sym53c875). But it couldn't cope with the update-menus.
Greetings,
Geert
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