Subj : Re: Bookworm update behavior
To   : All
From : bp
Date : Fri Nov 07 2025 10:30:02

druck <news@druck.org.uk> wrote:
> On 05/11/2025 23:57, bp@www.zefox.net wrote:
>> As a rule, the system(s) report "system is up to date" within a
>> few minutes. One of them is a Pi5 with wired ethernet. the other
>> is a Pi2 on WiFi.
>> 
>> How long might it take for services to restart
>> after that point on the machine with wired ethernet?
> 
> They restart as the update is taking place.
> 
> Instead of using the desktop installer, next time pop up a terminal and 
> do a:-
> 
>   sudo apt update
>   sudo apt full-upgrade -y
> 
> You'll then see all the information on what is doing going by, and when 
> you get the prompt back it is all done.
> 
> But as I said, something else is going wrong on your system. Is it 
> chronically short of memory? If so just doing an update could cause 
> something to be booted out of memory sometime later.
> 
> If you have that terminal still open do a:-
> 
>   free -h
> 

The Pi5 reports 
               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:           7.9Gi       2.3Gi       2.0Gi       537Mi       4.2Gi       5.6Gi
Swap:          199Mi       150Mi        49Mi

The Pi2 of course much less, around 500M available. Clearly it's both memory
and CPU bound. My grumbles were mostly directed at the Pi5, very hard to see
how it could have memory limitations.

Thanks for writing,

bob prohaska
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