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Re: debian-trivia



On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 10:29:17AM -0800, Alexander Hvostov wrote:
> 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/*.

Guess you meant UDMA 133 - I'd be surprised if anyone was making 120Gb
UDMA 33 disks. Are UDMA 133 controllers available yet? I've had a Maxtor
drive capable of it for nearly a year, but no controller.

Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>



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