On 3/30/07, Christoph Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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
I've experienced this myself, so much that I'm about to change my perfectly working IDE disk for a SATA disk with the intent of fixing this. On my attempts to fix this, I changed some of the HD parameters, and it improved a bit, but not completely. My only guess about why this happens is that at some point the hard-drive was a bit too-full, so that it started to become fragmented, and the package db never de-fragmented, even if I later emptied the disk. This is just a wild guess. It might be something completely different. -- Besos, Marga -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
