Re: dselect error (more)
On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Bob Clark wrote:
> Two things. If I remember correctly (from your previuos posts) you have
> your packages on an nfs-mounted partition; and a troublesome one on an
> HP machine at that. There could be many things not related to deselect
> or Linux that may be affecting your system. Second, I imagine that
> dselect is doing other things besides announcing that it is "leaving"
> certain packages during this time. I think 5-10 seconds might be quite
> normal given your configuration.
>
> How fast is your connection to the HP?
I would say "not bad" because I don't *feel* any speed loss while doing
some things.
> What is the load on the HP?
Usually I'm the only one. It's a shame to say that but it isn't used
(see the next question for the reason).
> How well has nfs been implemented on the HP?
If there is any chance to do it in different ways I'm quite sure that the
administrator had choosen the bad way. This machine is in a terrible
state and it seems me that to become a Server for several Linux boxes
would be the a rebirth of it. Fortunately I got the chance to do
the job of installing the Linux distribution myself. If the administrator
of the HP machine would do that it would never work.
> How many packages does dselect have to look at?
About 30. But it tooks 5-10 seconds for EACH. The time needed seems to
be proportional to the size of the package (emacs needs longer than at
for instance).
> What kind of load is on both these machines?
On both I was the only user at this time logged in and I hasn't done
any other thing than dselect.
> How much memory do you have?
20MB at the 486/66
> Do you swap to a swap partition?
I think this wouldn't be necessary in this condition.
> Is it local or nfs-mounted?
In case it would be done on a local disk, of course.
> These are just a few things that might have an impact on your system
> performance.
I think most of these things shouldn't matter according to this answers.
Correct me if I'm wrong. What about the feeling of you. Takes it so
much time on your machine, too?
Andreas.
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