On 2010-01-31 10:59 +0100, Liviu Andronic wrote: > Something dpkg-related hogs my system's resources. It is disturbing > since it starts by itself, takes many minutes (+/- 1h) and ends by > itself. I could also not identify one obvious process responsible for > it. WHen this happens, CPU indicator shows about 50% usage of the two > cores, while I can spot many `sh' processes (with one of them taking a > good chunk of CPU), an `md5sum' process starting and ending > sporadically and a `dpkg-query' one exhibiting similar behaviour. > > Could someone suggest how to track down what triggers this and turn it > off? Thank you
>From your description I conclude that this is probably a cronjob (or several cronjobs) that checks the installed files/packages. You can use the 'pstree' command from the psmisc package to find out which job is the resource hog when it starts next time. BTW, do you run testing/unstable and have the debsums package installed? If so, setting CRON_CHECK="never" in /etc/default/debsums could put an end to your problems. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
