On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 11:10:37 +0200, Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >* Marc Haber [Fri, Jun 30 2006, 08:00:57AM]: >> file:// URLs are not the only issue here - aptitude update is also >> much slower than before on a hosted box which has 100 Mbit/s >> connectivity and could load the Packages.gz in, like, two seconds. > >I have doubts, have you measured the real difference? If you box is >already to slow for patching then it would have fun with bzip2 as well.
The machine in Question is a P3 with 1200 MHz. What's making the process slow is the turnaround time for the http requests, as observed multiple times in this thread alone. Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834