Re: apt is killing my machine

Ron Johnson wrote:
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> On 02/20/08 08:19, Owen Townend wrote:
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>> On 2/21/08, *Zach* <netrek@gmail.com <mailto:netrek@gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> My machine is a P3/700MHz.
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>> Zach
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>> 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
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> It's absurd to compare a modern machine like yours to an almost-
> antique like his.
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>> does thrash the HDD.
>> I use 'atop'
>> to look at the hdd usage amongst other things. With the right kernel patches it can show
>> live disk and network usage per process. It's basically a root run,
>> binary logging 'top' with more features.
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> Ron Johnson, Jr.
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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.

Michael

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