Previously Kevin Puetz wrote: > At the and of apt-get upgrade (which installed about 40 packages! yikes!), > it finished normally, but within about 10-15 seconds of that load going > away, my machine began to get choppy again. I managed to get top up (which > took a while!), and saw at the top of the list, afterstep, with about 80Megs > of RAM in use (RSS) and steadily climbing and equally high processor usage. It's not really afterstep, but the afterstep-phase of update-menu. What happens is that update-menu runs the scripts in /etc/menu-methods, and the process-name you see in ps is also the script-name. In your case afterstep, but it could have been any of the scripts there. Wichert. -- ============================================================================== This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: wichert@cs.leidenuniv.nl WWW: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/
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