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Re: ITP: mencal -- A menstruation calendar



On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 10:53:10PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 04:49:51AM -0600, Adam Majer wrote:
> > True, but I'm much more concerned with bloating Packages [sorry that I didn't
> > say that in the first place]. On low end machines, like m64k or 386/486
> > with little ram (<32M) it becomes a horrid process to try to update the 
> > system just because Packages is getting out of control.
> 
> Erm, I run apt on a 70MHz ARM box with 16M of RAM (and no swap!) and IMHO it 
> runs rather well considering.. The slowest part is calculating all the
> dependencies, and it is packages that have 10s of dependencies not little
> things like this that are slowing that down.

Turn the swap back on [with PIO and not DMA :-], and run some apps 
like apache and sendmail. Then most of the time it will be swapping.
With no swap, it makes things faster!

- Adam


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