Re: Woody install from scratch on 03/27/2002
On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Adam Majer wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 02:59:16PM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote:
> >
> > Dselect runs a lot slower than under potato, enough that I threw another
> > 16 meg ram in the machine. But that's a dselect db issue.
>
> It's because current setup _does_not_ scale. As sizeof(Packages) goes
> up, I'll bet you that it will get a lot worse if nothing is done.
> This is a known "feature" and will have to get fixed for Woody+1.
Indeed.
>
> > Bug?
> >
> > 13 seconds to fire up X. I can deal with that.. Takes about 5 seconds on
> > a similar box under potato, although that runs off and starts icewm as
> > well.
>
> X became more modular and thus a bit more bloated. But at least it is a much
> more managable setup than with 3.3.x series.
Stripped out a bunch of modules out of X that i don't need(like the
opengl, etc), haven't played with it enough to see if it made a
difference. But yes, MUCH easier to setup than 3.3.x
Mike
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