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Re: apt is killing my machine



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On 02/20/08 08:19, Owen Townend wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2/21/08, *Zach* <netrek@gmail.com <mailto:netrek@gmail.com>> wrote:
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[snip]
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>     My machine is a P3/700MHz.
> 
>     Zach
> 
> 
> Hey,
>   This doesn't sound normal at all, for comparison I have:
>   (Reading database ... 137921 files and directories currently installed.)
>   This takes about 15-20 seconds to read on a 2GHz/2GB RAM though it

It's absurd to compare a modern machine like yours to an almost-
antique like his.

> does thrash the HDD.
>   I use 'atop'
> to look at the hdd usage amongst other things. With the right kernel patches it can show 
> live disk and network usage per process. It's basically a root run,
> binary logging 'top' with more features.

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals
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