On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 03:39:29PM +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: > Dear list... > > what has always annoyed me is now ready to be asked on this list. :) > It appears like apt-get/aptitude/dpkg dealing with the list/database of > installed packages is terribly slow at times. I have roughly 1800 packages > installed and it sometimes takes 20-30 seconds to install a single > package. On a freshly installed system that's just a matter of seconds. > Since this is one of my two development workstations I uninstall and > install a lot of packages and dist-upgrade to unstable/experimental daily. > So the package database is in permanent flux. What might be the cause? Is > there some fragmentation effect? This is a common effect on a few Debian > systems here so I assume I'm not alone with it. Has anyone else observed > that? Is there a way to optimize it? > Interesting. I have ~1600 packages installed on my development machine and I do not experience the slowness you talk about. It was installed about 3.5 years ago.
How much RAM/CPU does the machine have? How fast are the disks? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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