I am not sure exactly when this behaviour manifested but it was within the past 2 months or so. Now whenever I install something the dpkg package database will eat up like 90%-100% of my CPU and the machine is near frozen until it completes. Even installing a small single package this will happen, when I install a lot of packages like in a recent dist-upgrade worth 70MB my machine was in basically unusable state for over 20 minutes until it finished!
0 upgraded, 44 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 906kB/73.4MB of archives. After unpacking 185MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y Get:1 http://debian.mirrors.pair.com testing/main mesademos 6.2.1-1 [807kB] Get:2 http://debian.mirrors.pair.com testing/main stx2any 1.56-2 [98.8kB] Fetched 556kB in 2m23s (3862B/s) Extracting templates from packages: 100% Preconfiguring packages ... [At this point the trouble began and my CPU jumped way up for about 3 minutes.] Selecting previously deselected package mysql-client-5.0. (Reading database ... 310013 files and directories currently installed.) [This is where things got really bad and I was over 90% CPU util for the next 17 minutes!] Any clue what is causing such poor performance and how I can fix it? I run Debian lenny with 2.6.18 kernel. CPU is P3 700MHz with 256MB RAM. Zach -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
