memory usage

[Brian Cluff]

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 at 0x1b.com
> <mailto:plug at 0x1b.com>> wrote:
>
>     smem
>
>     On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 8:46 AM, Fabian Santiago
>     <fsantiago at deviltracks.net <mailto:fsantiago at deviltracks.net>> wrote:
>      > Sorry, lower case top
>      >
>      > --
>      >
>      > Fabe
>      >
>      >
>      > On Sep 19, 2015, at 11:45 AM, Fabian Santiago
>     <fsantiago at deviltracks.net <mailto:fsantiago at deviltracks.net>>
>      > wrote:
>      >
>      > Top
>      >
>      > --
>      >
>      > Fabe
>      >
>      >
>      > On Sep 19, 2015, at 11:43 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com
>     <mailto:bmike1 at 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!
>      >
>      > --
>      > :-)~MIKE~(-:
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