Re: update-menus going higher and higher

[Hartmut.Koptein@t-online.de (Hartmut Koptein)]

> > > > > 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.


 This sounds like an old update-menu problem, fixed for about two weeks. 
 Are you using menu 2.1.3-1.1? 


Thanks,


     Hartmut