Re: Life at 4 bogomips
On Sun, 9 May 1999, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> I would suggest one of the several super-minimal distributions out there,
> like the Linux Router Project - those really make more sense for something
> like this.
Oh, I agree. Note that I am installing a pretty minimum system anyway. It
was not the size of the packages I was complaining about, it was the the
debian utils seem to be rather inefficient. I imagine anoyone installing
on a 486 would see the same things.
My biggest peeve was the "redetection" of modules every time you installed
one in the kernel configuration section of the install. That took nearly
two minutes to complete each time. Seems to me it could remember which
modules it "detected" 10 seconds ago. That alone would shave nearly 20
minutes off the initial install.
My point is that the person maintaining it probably has a computer that
blasts through that part so fast that it appears to be a negligible gain
to change the logic but if you run it on a slow computer, you suddenly see
that you have a repetitive task that really needs to be done only once
that takes a very long time to complete on an old system.
(the install still has not completed yet ... still setting up packages).
It tends to make weak spots very visible.
Reply to: