That's very unusual behaviour, an I say that as someone that actually
knows (mostly) how CPAN.pm works.
You should absolutely report that to the rt.cpan.org support queue for
CPAN.pm.
And if I may, I'd also like to reinforce that point for anyone that has
problems with CPAN modules. PLEASE report install failures or bugs to
the rt.cpan.org support queues.
Many authors are highly responsive, and for those that aren't having
your problem listed means when that module gets taken over by someone
more responsive, it will be fixed then.
Adam K
CPAN Adminstrator
Voytek Eymont wrote:
as I was installing some new Perl modules, it told me there was a newer
CPAN avaliable, and, suggested to update it with:
-------------
You might want to try
install Bundle::CPAN
reload cpan
------------
after I did 'reload cpan', nasty things started happening, with all free
memory running out rather rapidly
- any thought what happened ?
- more importantly, what should I've attempted to do, instead of watching
it and saying "I think this will crash real soon now"
- anything I should do now to 'check things' after this mishap ?
on the way down, I managed to collect these:
# top
7:57am up 119 days, 9:16, 2 users, load average: 14.62, 6.65, 2.72
181 processes: 179 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 11.4% user, 7.3% system, 0.0% nice, 81.1% idle
Mem: 1023120K av, 1014732K used, 8388K free, 0K shrd, 24416K buff
Swap: 522104K av, 522104K used, 0K free 106684K
cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
5312 root 15 0 9828 9828 2252 D 6.7 0.9 0:00 php
1634 root 15 0 909M 581M 1600 D 4.7 58.2 0:38 perl
5 root 12 0 0 0 0 DW 1.5 0.0 6:03 kswapd
# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1023120 1014816 8304 0 24484 96728
-/+ buffers/cache: 893604 129516
Swap: 522104 522056 48
# top
7:58am up 119 days, 9:17, 2 users, load average: 14.32, 7.47, 3.14
182 processes: 179 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 6.3% user, 9.4% system, 0.0% nice, 84.1% idle
Mem: 1023120K av, 1014036K used, 9084K free, 0K shrd, 10980K buff
Swap: 522104K av, 522088K used, 16K free 30860K
cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
1634 root 19 0 1052M 722M 1548 R 6.8 72.2 0:40 perl
5 root 13 0 0 0 0 DW 2.9 0.0 6:04 kswapd
8 root 10 0 0 0 0 SW 0.8 0.0 19:29 kscand/HighMem
10313 apache 11 0 18540 15M 4140 D 0.6 1.5 1:13 httpd
# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1023120 1014908 8212 0 9328 28840
-/+ buffers/cache: 976740 46380
Swap: 522104 522104 0
# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1023120 1014812 8308 0 484 10692
-/+ buffers/cache: 1003636 19484
Swap: 522104 522104 0
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