RE: Apt-get behaving badly

["Steve Dondley" <stevedondley@attbi.com>]

> That's bad. If you have strace installed, try running 'strace -f -o
> /tmp/dpkg.trace apt-get upgrade', and look near the end of
> /tmp/dpkg.trace for clues. You might want to try memtest86 though.


One other thing.  I also noticed this line in the strace output:

327   gettimeofday({1029604405, 605005}, NULL) = 0

It's repeated THOUSANDS of times in the file with the exception of
variations in the second parameter.  Pehaps this is a small time program
that is sucking up memory????  It seems odd it would be repeated over and
over so many times.