[Aptitude-devel] Bug#373846: aptitude uses GIGABYTES of memory

[Philipp Marek]

Please fix that issue, or at least make aptitude detect and quit by itself.

It's only a matter of luck whether I catch the cronjob in time, or whether 
I have to wait for an hour for the server to come back (alternatively, 
I can spend ~15 minutes on the serial line to get a chance to kill it by 
hand).

      PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND
    10649 root      20   0 18,881g 0,014t  18296 S   0,0 61,6  38:55.96 aptitude -y -s -v safe-upgrade