Robert Nelson <robertcnel...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 11:18 AM Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote: > > > > I have recently done a clean install of Debian on a BBB and it feels > > *very* slow, especially when running apt. Even 'apt search' just > > crawls along at times. > > > > Has something changed to cause this or have I just got used to fast > > hardware and forgotten what a BBB is like, or what? > > > > Here's a timing of a search:- > > > > chris@beaglebone$ time apt search vile > > Sorting... Done > > Full Text Search... Done > > > > [snip results] > > > > real 4m4.103s > > user 3m55.675s > > sys 0m7.152s > > > > Over four minutes for a simple search seems rather slow. > > > > I tried the same on an old Raspberry Pi :- > > > > chris@dns$ time apt search vile > > Sorting... Done > > Full Text Search... Done > > > > [snip results] > > > > real 0m8.512s > > user 0m8.228s > > sys 0m0.285s > > > > Just eight seconds, much more reasonable, so what's happened to the BBB? > > debian@bbb-pwr01-ser09:~$ time apt search vile > Sorting... Done > Full Text Search... Done > bubblewrap/stable 0.3.1-4 armhf > setuid wrapper for unprivileged chroot and namespace manipulation > > zulupolkit/stable 5.4.0-3 armhf > handler the polkit privileges > > real 0m15.199s > user 0m13.600s > sys 0m1.135s > > model:[TI_AM335x_BeagleBone_Black] > dogtag:[BeagleBoard.org Debian Buster IoT Image 2020-04-06] > That seems much more reasonable, I wonder what's up with mine.
Does running of an SD card rather than the EMMC slow things down a lot? I have tried a bigger, newer SD card to see if it speeded things up but it doesn't seem to have had much effect. Anyway at least it's not me imagining things! :-) -- Chris Green ยท -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/49sleh-gr3m.ln1%40esprimo.zbmc.eu.
