Re: apt is killing my machine
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 11:28:01AM +0000, "Michael D. Norwick" <mnorwick@centurytel.net> was heard to say:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
>>> On 2/21/08, *Zach* <netrek@gmail.com <mailto:netrek@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> 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.
>
> I agree. The key is PIII 700MHz and then the line:
>
> <<< It then proceeded:
> < 316137 files and directories currently installed.)
>
> If you have, but do not need, updates from src repositories, edit
> /etc/apt/sources.list accordingly. This may help a little.
Not for this problem. The program that's thrashing his system here is
dpkg, which doesn't read sources.list.
Daniel
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