Most desktops have a number of package related scripts that run in the
background that will update your package database, and/or install
updates, etc. Since they are working with the package database, apt
will lock the database while it is in use. Usually you won't notice
these scripts running at all, but if there are a number of updates that
are installing your system can work fairly hard while they are being
installed.
It's best to just leave it to it's work until it's done so you don't
accidentally leave you system broken and possibly unbootable if it's
upgrading something like the kernel.
Brian Cluff
On 09/19/2015 09:25 AM, Michael Havens wrote:
> the problem seems to have been checkapt.py . I tried to figure out what
> it does and it seems that it locks a database (apt's?). But it couldn't
> of been apt's as I wasn't running apt. Then I ran top again and it
> seemed to have corrected itself after 10 or fifteen minutes. Am I
> correct in what I think it does? Is it safe to kill if this happens again?
>
> On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 12:13 PM, Ed <plug@0x1b.com
> <mailto:plug@0x1b.com>> wrote:
>
> smem
>
> On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 8:46 AM, Fabian Santiago
> <fsantiago@deviltracks.net <mailto:fsantiago@deviltracks.net>> wrote:
> > Sorry, lower case top
> >
> > --
> >
> > Fabe
> >
> >
> > On Sep 19, 2015, at 11:45 AM, Fabian Santiago
> <fsantiago@deviltracks.net <mailto:fsantiago@deviltracks.net>>
> > wrote:
> >
> > Top
> >
> > --
> >
> > Fabe
> >
> >
> > On Sep 19, 2015, at 11:43 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com
> <mailto:bmike1@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > what is the bash command that gives you a chart of memory usage?
> Something
> > is bogging my system and I don't know what it is. I want to sill it!
> >
> > --
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