Hi, marking packages as automatically installed seems to be also quite slow even on my 700MHz Athlon system with 1GB of RAM.
I used ptrace to attach to aptitude, then pressed "M" on a package and logged the value of EIP at every instruction and then counted what values are most common: count EIP symbol:offset 299 b7d30d8a _ZN7cwidget18column_dispositionC1ERKSsiPKc-0xa0:9a 435 b7de70b8 _ZNK4sigc8internal11signal_impl4sizeEv-0xd0:c8 9986 b7e4b672 _ZNK13Configuration5FindBEPKcb:52 9987 b7e5e4dc _ZN8pkgCache11PkgIteratorppEi:5c 10006 b7e4aa3e _ZN13Configuration6LookupEPKcb:ae 10026 b7e4a889 _ZN13Configuration6LookupEPNS_4ItemEPKcmb:f9 10048 b7ae741e strlen:ae 40082 b7e4645a _Z13stringcasecmpN9__gnu_cxx17__normal_iteratorIPKcSsEES3_S2_S2_:6a 40089 b7c88c51 _ZNSs9_M_mutateEjjj:f1 40090 b7c882d6 _ZNSsC1ERKSs:36 40168 b7c89710 _ZNSs12_M_leak_hardEv:40 40174 b7c86c11 _ZNSs4_Rep9_S_createEjjRKSaIcE:71 40174 b7c86c52 _ZNSs4_Rep10_M_destroyERKSaIcE:22 40209 b7ae8895 memcpy:45 40284 b7caae46 _ZdlPv:26 40300 b7ae078a malloc_set_state:99a 40310 b7cac785 _Znwj:85 40313 b7ae4521 __libc_free:41 40482 b7ae2ce5 __libc_malloc:45 40505 b7ae0e54 malloc_set_state:1064 70150 b7e443aa _ZN4MMapC2Em-0xa0:9a 162266 b7a8b293 __libc_init_first-0x70:63 201479 b7a99316 toupper:36 201479 b7b85e1e __frame_state_for:d1e 281497 b7c36a7a _ZN9__gnu_cxx9free_list8_M_clearEv-0x1490:9a (I was not able to trace all instructions since it took really long but this should cover the first 1494401 instructions needed to mark package as automatically installed) best regard, Timo Lindfors -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]