On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 19:51, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 19:29, Alexander Hvostov wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 00:52, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 09:17:00PM +0100, Geert-Jan Hut wrote: > > > > the system is reasonably fast. Dselect still uses about 10 seconds every time > > > > I go to the 'select' screen, but otherwise it is very workable... I just > > > > > > That's not too bad, it takes nearly 5 on my 1.2 GHz Athlon machine! > > > > Just under 6 seconds here. Pentium II (Deschutes) @ 400 MHz (800 > > BogoMIPS), 384 MB RAM (66 MHz SDRAM), and an overwhelmingly cool > > WD1200JB (120 GB, 8 MB buffer, ~8000 RPM, UDMA 33) hard drive. The > > bottleneck appears to be the CPU, which maxes out while parsing > > /var/lib/dpkg/*. > > If the CPU were the bottleneck, the Athlon should be much faster. I > guess it's memory access, which would explain the roughly equal time for > a machine with roughly a factor 3 difference in raw CPU speed (yes, I > know the MHz don't really compare, but I'd say the difference is big > enough here.) My memory (768 MB) is running at 133 MHz and it takes less then 3 secs on my computer (1.44 MHz Celeron), so you could be true there. But that would mean approx. 50 MB transfer? While /var/lib/dpkg/available is less then 10 MB? Otto.
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