slow as molasses
I just installed debian on another machine, and it's slow as molasses.
It's an apex 486/33, with a 400mb on / and 514 on sr, with 20mb of ram.
For example, when launching dselect and asking to choose packages, it
takes a couple of minutes until it gets there. It is a few seconds on a
similar machine with 8M and 2 80M drives. After downloading files, it
takes minutes on most of htem while checking them. WHen deleting, it's
20-30 seconds each. And top takes about 20% of cpu time (or is that
still broken, but it all seems to add up about right).
man also takes forever.
the only suspicions i have so far:
1) almost all 20m of memory is used. is this normal? [with just dsel
going]
2) the interleave on the drives. The bios says it's 3. These are 63 &
65 sector drives; is this normal?
3) there is a scsi controller, though, so far, i've failed to configure
it to read the cd.
rick
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