I don't think you will see apt-get upgrade spawn child processes running http, since it downloads and installs the files one at a time, I do think the update switch will spawn a number of http processes.
I'm getting most of my information out of 'The DEBIAN SYSTEM" by Martin F. Krafft. ISBN 1593270690 You may want to grab a copy and read chapter 5. Denis 2008/7/14 Zhenghe Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Denis, > > That is right that you say. But if you add many repositories and > enter "apt-get update" in terminal ,you will find many processes , do you > think ? > > Thanks > > > > Zhenghe Zhang > > > ------------------------------ > > *From:* Denis Dimick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > *Sent:* 2008年7月15日 0:26 > *To:* Marius Vollmer > *Cc:* Zhenghe Zhang; maemo-users@maemo.org > *Subject:* Re: About Process > > > > I think Marius is correct, apt-get will spawn child process, one for each > repository, hoever, when downloading and installing via "apt-get install" > there should only be one http process running to retrieve the application > for install. > > Denis > > On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 7:06 AM, Marius Vollmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > "ext Zhenghe Zhang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > If you want to download three packages ,you will see three processes of > > "/usr/lib/apt/methods/http". And if you want to download ten package > > ,you will see ten processes. > > I don't think this is true. Apt-get will use one "http" process per server > for parallel downloading, not one per package. > > > > I want to ask you about controling the processes of "http".I would like > > to limit the number of the process when download many packages. > > You can use the Acquire::Queue-Mode setting. See the "apt.conf" man > page. > > Since we have so many repositories and since that seems to cause some > problems, we should probably use > > Acquire::Queue-Mode "access"; > > by default. > > _______________________________________________ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users@maemo.org > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users > > >
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