My system crawled to a halt, I now had to kill the process: 27136 root 26 10 631m 435m 356 D 5.7 86.4 67:26.70 gpg
But now gpg seems unusable as root: $ gpg --list-keys gpg: checking the trustdb ... and that runs as before ... I restarted with time: $ time gpg --list-keys ... and after a few minutes it really finished: real 6m15.599s user 5m33.622s sys 0m14.873s And this time it behaves much better: 29405 root 25 0 19760 17m 1080 R 73.0 3.5 5:47.71 gpg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]