Package: coreutils Version: 8.30-3 Severity: normal Was using seq to write some data to test that a cheapo enormous SD card isn't faking its capacity. Thought I'd use seq --equal-width just to make calculations easier. But jeepers creepers, what a slowdown!
$ time seq 0 10000000 > /dev/null real 0m0.358s user 0m0.331s sys 0m0.018s $ time seq --equal-width 0 10000000 > /dev/null real 0m29.562s user 0m27.968s sys 0m0.100s $ echo '27.968 / 0.331' | bc 84 -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.0 APT prefers proposed-updates APT policy: (570, 'proposed-updates'), (570, 'testing'), (570, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (450, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_IE:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages coreutils depends on: ii libacl1 2.2.53-4 ii libattr1 1:2.4.48-4 ii libc6 2.28-10 ii libselinux1 2.8-1+b1 coreutils recommends no packages. coreutils suggests no packages. -- no debconf information