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Re: Apt-get behaving badly



On Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 01:23:52PM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote:
> 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????

Don't worry about gettimeofday(). It's likely just being used to compute
download rates or similar, and I would be absolutely astonished if it
had anything to do with your problem.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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