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Bug#479365: marked as done (apt eats up all my memory doing a simple apt-get install reportbug or apt-cache show apt)

Your message dated Thu, 13 Aug 2015 18:19:39 +0200
with message-id <20150813161939.GA21719@crossbow>
and subject line Re: state of #479365
has caused the Debian Bug report #479365,
regarding apt eats up all my memory doing a simple apt-get install reportbug or apt-cache show apt
to be marked as done.

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--- Begin Message --- 
Package: apt
Version: 0.7.12
Severity: normal


When i try to install something from the command line (using apt-get) apt
eats several hunderd megs and renders the system unusable during the update.
I'm running unstable and did update the apt package 3 o 4 days ago, since
then i'm having this problems.

It doesn't really matter if i'm installing one package or several of them,
it always happends since the update. I have been doing a top while the
installing of reportbug was being done, and i saw that apt-extracttemp was
eating around 590 megs of Virtual memory and a bit less (580 megs) of
Resident (Res) memory. All the applications hung and X starts being
unresponsive due to the heavy swapping that was taking place.

The same problem also happended when i did apt-cache show apt.

-- Package-specific info:

-- apt-config dump --

APT "";
APT::Architecture "i386";
APT::Build-Essential "";
APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential";
APT::Install-Recommends "1";
APT::Install-Suggests "0";
APT::Acquire "";
APT::Acquire::Translation "environment";
APT::NeverAutoRemove "";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-image.*";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-restricted-modules.*";
APT::Periodic "";
APT::Periodic::Download-Upgradeable-Packages "0";
APT::Periodic::AutocleanInterval "0";
APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "1";
APT::Archives "";
APT::Archives::MaxAge "30";
APT::Archives::MinAge "2";
APT::Archives::MaxSize "500";
Dir "/";
Dir::State "var/lib/apt/";
Dir::State::lists "lists/";
Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list";
Dir::State::userstatus "status.user";
Dir::State::status "/var/lib/dpkg/status";
Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/";
Dir::Cache::archives "archives/";
Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin";
Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin";
Dir::Etc "etc/apt/";
Dir::Etc::sourcelist "sources.list";
Dir::Etc::sourceparts "sources.list.d";
Dir::Etc::vendorlist "vendors.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d";
Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf";
Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d";
Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences";
Dir::Bin "";
Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods";
Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg";
Dir::Log "var/log/apt";
Dir::Log::Terminal "term.log";
aptitude "";
aptitude::Delete-Unused-Pattern "^linux-image.*$";
DPkg "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";
DPkg::Post-Invoke "";
DPkg::Post-Invoke:: "if [ -d /var/lib/update-notifier ]; then  touch /var/lib/update-notifier/dpkg-run-stamp; fi";

-- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --


-- /etc/apt/sources.list --

#deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main 
#deb ftp://ftp.at.debian.org/debian experimental main
deb ftp://ftp.at.debian.org/debian unstable main

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25 (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  debian-archive-keyring   2008.04.16+nmu1 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii  libc6                    2.7-10          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                  1:4.3.0-3       GCC support library
ii  libstdc++6               4.3.0-3         The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

apt recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message --- 
Hi

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 03:11:23PM +0200, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote:
> Is this problem reproducible with the apt >= 0.7.18? If yes, please post strace output of
> 'apt-cache show apt' command (i.e. 'strace apt-cache show apt > output.txt', and attach
> output.txt).

Unreproducible and 7 years old without a comment, so I guess this was
fixed after all. Feel free to reopen if not, of course!


Best regards

David Kalnischkies

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