On Friday 30 March 2007 15:43, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 03:39:29PM +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: > > It appears like apt-get/aptitude/dpkg dealing with the list/database > > of installed packages is terribly slow at times. > > 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?
RAM: 1 GB CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz Kernel: 2.6.18-3-686 Disk: ~ 20 MB/sec (if I read the bonnie++ numbers correctly) Christoph
