Very SLOW system update

Saturday, 12 September 2015

An update has been running on my system for the last 3-1/2 hours.  It
hasn't crashed or died, but it's been very slow.  Here are the stats:

    $ date; ps u 9145

    Sat Sep 12 15:28:49 PDT 2015

    USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME
    COMMAND

    jonrysh   9145  0.4  0.7 496432 63340 ?        S    11:56   0:56
    /bin/apper

Everything else is running fine.  Good connection to my ISP.  Is there
some kind of trouble with the server?  Heavy load?

Thanks - jon