apt upgrade fills RAM during download phase

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#1

Briefly describe your issue below:
This is more of a question than it is a problem:
So, two months ago, i installed the lastest version of parrot available. But during apt ugrade

(sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade)

it filled all the RAM and froze, so I had to uninstall it.

I reinstalled today and it hapened again:
It incrementally used all the RAM available. I ctrl+c before it reached 100% and it came down to the base 20% used. I re ran the command and it incrementally used it again to download the rest of packets.
When actually unpacking and installing, it stayed at a 27% of RAM usage.

I now know I can stop the download and rerun the command for large enough downloads but:
Is it normal?
IS there a workaround or fix other than “add more RAM”?
Using swap is not an option beacause both disks I have are SSD

I have 8GB of RAM and no swap due to the reason mentioned above. I’m planning on adding another 8GB ram module to the laptop but for now I have to stick with what I have

What version of Parrot are you running? (include version (e.g. 4.6), edition(e.g. Home//KDE/OVA, etc.), and architecture (currently we only support amd64)
4.7 security x 64

What method did you use to install Parrot? (Debian Standard / Debian GTK / parrot-experimental)
Debian standard

Configured to multiboot with other systems? (yes / no)
Yes. Grub with ubuntu and windows 10

If there are any similar issues or solutions, link to them below:
apt dist upgrade fills ram

If there are any error messages or relevant logs, post them below:
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#2

Yes seen this a couple of times on friends laptops with only 8 gig or ram. Afer new install and then Parrot upgrades packages seen 800 plus updates then stalls around the 80% of updating. I dont know if the images are updated after a new release, but maybe this would help. But the guys who build and maintain Parrot OS do a great job, and I guess very busy looking after it, and dont have time to do these image updates. :slight_smile:

#3

Then try to update without logging in into the Desktop Environment and use tty instead of it.

#4

What are you using to check the memory usage? Are we talking about memory active and in use and not memory cached?

That doesn’t matter, swapping to a hard disk wouldn’t be anymore desirable.

#5

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