Re: apt is killing my machine

2008-02-25 Thread x_debian-user_x
I run Sarge on an openz vps with strictly allocated 64MB RAM. apt-get upgrade will fall over with dpkg malloc errors. So instead I have a script which effectively does: apt-get update apt-get upgrade --download-only -y dpkg -Ri /var/cache/apt/archives/ apt-get clean So far this has always worke

Re: apt is killing my machine

2008-02-20 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 03:04:13PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > still noticed a great difference between Sarge and Etch in terms of > dpkg, apt, and aptitude performance; it is far more sluggish with Etch my very partial experience points to the binaries (perhaps the version of the compliler a

Re: apt is killing my machine

2008-02-20 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 11:28:01AM +, "Michael D. Norwick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 2/21/08, *Zach* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: >>> Hey, >>> This doesn't sound normal at all, for comparison I have: >>> (Reading database ...

Re: apt is killing my machine

2008-02-20 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 08:47:46AM -0500, Zach wrote: > Do you know if it's expected for installing packages to take longer > the more total packages one has installed? In recent months I notice > sometimes when I install packages (sometimes one, sometimes many) the > machine will be in nearly unus

Re: apt is killing my machine

2008-02-20 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/20/08 08:19, Owen Townend wrote: On 2/21/08, *Zach* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: [snip] My machine is a P3/700MHz. Zach Hey, This doesn't sound normal at all, for compariso

Re: apt is killing my machine

2008-02-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-02-20 14:47 +0100, Zach wrote: > Do you know if it's expected for installing packages to take longer > the more total packages one has installed? Yes. The reason is that for every package installation dpkg has to read the whole list of installed files from /var/lib/dpkg/info to see if a

Re: apt is killing my machine

2008-02-20 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Wednesday 20 February 2008 14:47, Zach wrote: > Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y > (Reading database ... << At this point it hung for 20 minutes! > > << It then proceeded: > > 316137 files and directories currently installed.) Isn't that a lot of files and directories. On my box, I have about 1

Re: apt is killing my machine

2008-02-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/20/08 08:19, Owen Townend wrote: > > > On 2/21/08, *Zach* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > [snip] > > My machine is a P3/700MHz. > > Zach > > > Hey, > This doesn't sound normal at all, for comparison I have

Re: apt is killing my machine

2008-02-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/20/08 07:47, Zach wrote: > Do you know if it's expected for installing packages to take longer > the more total packages one has installed? In recent months I notice > sometimes when I install packages (sometimes one, sometimes many) the > machin

Re: apt is killing my machine

2008-02-20 Thread Owen Townend
On 2/21/08, Zach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Do you know if it's expected for installing packages to take longer > the more total packages one has installed? In recent months I notice > sometimes when I install packages (sometimes one, sometimes many) the > machine will be in nearly unusable sta

apt is killing my machine

2008-02-20 Thread Zach
Do you know if it's expected for installing packages to take longer the more total packages one has installed? In recent months I notice sometimes when I install packages (sometimes one, sometimes many) the machine will be in nearly unusable state while it read's the package database. Such as just