On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 12:46:36AM +0100, Philippe Seidel wrote: > On Mit, 2003-01-08 at 22:47, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 09:07:40PM +0100, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von > > Bidder wrote: > > > It even takes too long (considering the task of 'simply' display a list) > > > on a PII 350MHz with enough RAM. And I don't consider this an old > > > machine. > > > > Well in all fairness it would be at least four years old. > > Well I'm using a PII 350 for almost four years now and it serves me > perfectly. With more computing power, all I'd do would be to run > multiple [EMAIL PROTECTED] instances, so I'm perfectly satisfied. > I'm not used to see computers which are only 117 MHz away from mine > being called in connection with "the oldest piece of hardware running > debian"...... > Wierd times....
Well, don't get offended because I said your computer was old. Debian has a lot of packages these days and as a result dpkg takes a lot of time to process the package list. It's really noticeable on slower CPUs. I have a K6-2 350 here and the dselect Select screen takes 6+ seconds to appear with a couple of apt-get sources for unstable. I've had the K6-2 350 system for four years now, and it wasn't bleeding edge when I bought it. Intel is about to ship a > 3 GHz Pentium 4, if they haven't already. That's nearly ten times increase in raw clock speed. Optimising dpkg/dselect may help. Certainly dpkg/dselect has slowed down as the number of packages has increased. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
