I forget something. During the run of debootstrap, I observed via repeated ps -efl calls that often perl is running for a longer time. Then I tried to use strace to see which exec(ve) calls takes a long time. But I didn't managed to find out, instead I saw read calls taking long. So I decided to look at the perl code and what it was reading. Using strace I could also see which perl calls where executed several times. -- regards Thomas