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  1. Bug #1178943
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 1178943

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Daniel Hartwig (wigs) wrote : Re: [Bug 1178943] [NEW] /etc/cron.daily/apt is holding memory while "sleep"

On 11 May 2013 17:18, Jérôme <email address hidden> wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> The "random_sleep" function is calling "sleep". Thus the memory used by
> anacron, the /etc/cron.daily/apt script is frozen for minutes when the
> "random_sleep" blocks until the "sleep" program completes.

> I think this problem is important,

Provide some figures to back up this claim. How much resources are
consumed when this script sleeps?

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