[email protected] wrote: > And it seems to make things much better here on my SSD EEEPC 702. > Bob, do CC me so I see this faster...
Okay. I will be happy to CC you. But please do not CC me. I will read the message from the mailing list. Most importantly I am reading the mailing lists as a best-effort case only. I prefer to reserve direct mailings for urgent communications. Also the debian-mirrors isn't the place to debug this since it doesn't have anything to do with mirroring. But I will send one more reply to tidy things up and then all other messages over to debian-user please. > $ vmstat -n 2 > procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu---- > r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa > 0 0 0 483308 25596 408892 0 0 0 0 46 125 0 1 99 0 > 1 0 0 478412 25596 408892 0 0 0 0 156 173 23 2 76 0 > 0 1 0 459580 25608 432576 0 0 0 1854 330 144 42 13 0 45 > 0 1 0 459340 25616 432576 0 0 0 2406 102 125 0 1 0 99 > 0 1 0 459216 25620 432576 0 0 0 2280 101 125 1 2 0 98 > ... The si/so values all look okay. So that refutes my hypothesis that the machine was swapping. And 1G of ram should be sufficient too. But of course it all depends upon what else you have running at the same time. > OK, Bob, (sorry Otto) here's what happens when we hit Y to aptitude's > > "No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]" > > Which is the slowest thing I can recreate today. > (It takes 28 seconds to do one big no-op.) I find aptitude to be extremely slow on any machine. Your 900MHz 1G ram Asus EEE PC 702 is going to struggle with it. I don't have anything exactly the same but I do have an 866MHz Pentium 3 machine with 256M ram here as the closest match and here are the timings from it. I ran each twice to show that the cache was warmed up for each. # time apt-get upgrade real 0m1.383s user 0m1.360s sys 0m0.020s # time apt-get upgrade real 0m1.389s user 0m1.344s sys 0m0.036s # time aptitude upgrade real 0m11.219s user 0m9.041s sys 0m0.720s # time aptitude upgrade real 0m12.026s user 0m9.053s sys 0m0.684s Try apt-get instead of aptitude. As you can see from this data it will perform a lot better on your machine. Bob _______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list [email protected] https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel
