On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 04:11:46PM +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: > On Friday 30 March 2007 15:43, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 03:39:29PM +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: > > > It appears like apt-get/aptitude/dpkg dealing with the list/database > > > of installed packages is terribly slow at times. > > > > Interesting. I have ~1600 packages installed on my development machine > > and I do not experience the slowness you talk about. It was installed > > about 3.5 years ago. > > > > How much RAM/CPU does the machine have? How fast are the disks? > > RAM: 1 GB > CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz > Kernel: 2.6.18-3-686 > Disk: ~ 20 MB/sec (if I read the bonnie++ numbers correctly) > > Christoph Hmm. I have 1.5 GB RAM, 1.8 GHz Athlon XP and a 2.6.16 or 2.6.17 kernel. My disks are a little faster, but not much. I wonder if something else is slowing you down. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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