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Bug#516303: marked as done (apt downloaded (or created?) a 10 gigabyte diffindex file)

Your message dated Wed, 14 Sep 2011 18:56:22 +0200
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and subject line Close: apt downloaded (or created?) a 10 gigabyte diffindex file
has caused the Debian Bug report #516303,
regarding apt downloaded (or created?) a 10 gigabyte diffindex file
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Package: apt
Version: 0.7.20.2
Yesterday apt-get update either downloaded, or created, a 10Gbyte diffindex file. Apparently it only stopped because it filled up /var, which broke some services running on the same system. 

richard@araminta:/var/lib/apt/lists/partial$ ls -l
total 9242292
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 386 2009-02-14 14:07 ftp.uk.debian.org_debian_dists_lenny_Release.gpg.reverify -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2879 2009-02-18 08:38 ftp.uk.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-amd64_Packages.diff_2009-02-18-0837.56 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 189 2009-02-18 02:42 ftp.uk.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_Release.gpg.reverify -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9446486016 2009-02-19 07:38 http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_lenny_main_binary-amd64_Packages.DiffIndex -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 386 2009-02-14 14:07 http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_lenny_Release.gpg.reverify -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5670002 2009-02-13 02:02 http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-amd64_Packages -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2659686 2009-02-13 02:16 http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_source_Sources -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 189 2009-02-18 02:42 http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_Release.gpg.reverify -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 189 2009-02-15 15:23 security.debian.org_dists_lenny_updates_Release.gpg.reverify 

You can see this underway in a snapshot of my MRTG output too:

http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/junk/araminta_var-day.png
I'm afraid I don't know if it was the mirror or apt going haywire. Even if it was the mirror then perhaps apt ought to have some kind of sanity check to avoid downloading unreasonably large amounts of data (if 'unreasonably large' can be sensibly defined). 

A subsequent hand run of 'apt-get update' doesn't show this behavior.

ttfn/rjk

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This bug is relatively old without any possibility to reproduce it.
As the code involved changed a lot in the meantime it is
pretty unlikely that someone can identify the issue -
if we assume it was an issue in APT at all, which isn't clear -
so i guess we are better of closing this bugreport as it was
implicitly tagged unreproducible for more than two years now…

Please feel free to reopen it if e.g. it can reproduce now, of course!


Best regards

David Kalnischkies

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