On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 14:35, Yven Leist wrote: > On Monday 06 January 2003 22:54, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 06:02:58AM -0800, Alexander Hvostov wrote: > > > Perhaps it's high time dpkg received some serious optimization. The way > > > > apt-get is also really slow on slow hardware, and it already has binary > > cache files I think. > > Hmm, at least in the scenario I described above doing an apt-get something > results in apt-get needing at most a few minutes (actually it might even > still be seconds) and dpkg taking hours to complete due to the crazy > swapping. (the latter might have also something to do with the 2.4.15-pre2 > kernel running on that machine, which was IIRC the first kernel with the new > vm subsystem, but still, even if it took only a tenth of the time it would > still be unbearably slow...) I think there was an option to APT somewhere to try to make less calls to dpkg. I seem to recall that it was dangerous for some reason or another. I don't remember much beyond that. Perhaps the 'apt.conf' man page would be useful. Alex. -- PGP Public Key: http://aoi.dyndns.org/~alex/pgp-public-key -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS d- s:++ a18 C++(++++)>$ UL+++(++++) P--- L+++>++++ E---- W+(+++) N- o-- K+ w--- !O M(+) V-- PS+++ PE-- Y+ PGP+(+++) t* 5-- X-- R tv b- DI D+++ G e h! !r y ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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