Ah, so it is the same bug that is supposed to be fixed on master now? (earlier message). Good, it will go away soon then. -- +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | .-'''''-. Kevin Puetz | | .' _/| `. | | : =/_/ : [EMAIL PROTECTED] -preferred | | : _/ | : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | (\ / ,| : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | \\/^\/||__ : | | _/~`~`""~`"` \_ .' "Could you please continue the petty | | __/ -'/ `-._ `\_\__ bickering? I find it - most intriguing." | |/ /-'` `\ \ \-.\ --Data, STTNG, "Haven" | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
---------- >From: Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Kevin Puetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: Debian GNU/Linux PPC <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: controlling the load average >Date: Wed, Oct 6, 1999, 6:06 PM > > 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > WWW: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/ >
