On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 08:16:41PM -0300, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > > Hello, > > I was wondering if anyone else notices this when installing or > removing packages: the disk is heavily used (like when the cron > scripts are triggered in the morning) for some time (depending on > the number and size of the packages), and the box becomes absolutely > slow. This happens even with small pacakges, in a Woody/Pentium II > 400 with 64 Mb of RAM and a 15 Gb Western Digital Caviar HD using > ATA66... The window manager is flwm (the fastest and lightest I > could find)... And I'm also using Gnome, but Gnome is usually pretty > fast here. (And I usually have 20 or 30 Mb of free memory.)
First, you don't have scads of RAM for running Gnome -- I tend to avoid it with a slower box (PII 180) and more RAM (96MB), and don't particularly care for it at work (PIII-450/128). Debian reads the entire package list when installing files. It's also updating a bunch of stuff. This is pretty disk intensive. It's also possible that you're swapping a lot of data, particularly if you're trying to use any apps under Gnome while doing the installation. Above all that, IDE performance tends to suck a whole lot more CPU juice than SCSI does (I run SCSI on two of three disks). You might want to launch a couple of system monitoring tools. My preferences are wmmon and asmon under WindowMaker, though top will give some raw measures. Not sure what you can turn to for disk I/O and realtime swap usage. Anyone? Hmmm... xosview is butt ugly but damned useful, it might be helpful also. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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