John Reiser wrote: > While using the Debian installer in low-memory mode to put a Debian system > onto a NSLU2 (ARM processor with 32MB RAM), I noticed that the installer > seemed slow. Running "ps" repeatedly in a concurrent session, I often > saw about 80 processes per second, and many command lines of the form: > [ <package1> = <package2> ] > which tests if two package names are the same. I'm guessing that this is > to construct a set represented as a list, such as a list of required > packages with no duplicates. Doing this sequentially takes quadratic time. > If '[' is built in to the shell, then it can be fast enough anyway.
It would help if you told us what stage of the installer this was happening in or what the parent process was.. -- see shy jo
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