On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 03:17:04PM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > The slowdown is probably caused by not having enough memory. It's not apt > > but dpkg that's horribly slow when you have 64 MB or less. See bug > > #245970. Telling people that they should feed their system fewer packages > > is just crap. > > Do you realize that a single release's package list is about 12 megabytes? > You don't feed a program a dataset which takes up half your available memory > by itself, and then complain that it can't keep it all in memory along with > the rest of the system. I do complain about that, because I think it is possible to change the program so that it can keep the relevant part of that dataset in memory most of the time. > Certainly not for the marginal benefits of configuring apt this way. For some people the benefit might be more than marginal. And it's dpkg I'm talking about, not apt. > > Dpkg should work in O(1) time (or O(log(N)), that's good enough too) per > > package, not in O(N) time where N is the total number of packages on your > > system. > > Sensible people should take more care with how they address others in a > public forum. What was unsensible about that, apart from the fact that you apparently don't agree with me? -- Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards, Guus Sliepen <guus@sliepen.eu.org>
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