On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 11:28:01AM +0000, "Michael D. Norwick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 2/21/08, *Zach* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: >>> Hey, >>> This doesn't sound normal at all, for comparison I have: >>> (Reading database ... 137921 files and directories currently installed.) >>> This takes about 15-20 seconds to read on a 2GHz/2GB RAM though it >>> >> >> It's absurd to compare a modern machine like yours to an almost- >> antique like his. > > I agree. The key is PIII 700MHz and then the line: > > <<< It then proceeded: > < 316137 files and directories currently installed.) > > If you have, but do not need, updates from src repositories, edit > /etc/apt/sources.list accordingly. This may help a little.
Not for this problem. The program that's thrashing his system here is dpkg, which doesn't read sources.list. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]