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Re: apt is killing my machine

From: Daniel Burrows <dburrows(at)debian.org>
Date: Wed Feb 20 2008 - 22:27:52 EST

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 11:28:01AM +0000, "Michael D. Norwick" <mnorwick@centurytel.net> was heard to say:
> Ron Johnson wrote:

>>> On 2/21/08, *Zach* > 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

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