Re: apt vs. SSD computers

2012-12-17 Thread Chris Davies
jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > Even though I only have a 1 Mb ADSL, I find Acquire::PDiffs "false"; > will finally stop the torture my computer is put through. [...] > Also there is no way like nice(1) to lessen its grip on resources. If you're concerned about bandwidth try trickle(1). nice(1) on t

Re: apt vs. SSD computers

2012-12-16 Thread jidanni
Even though I only have a 1 Mb ADSL, I find Acquire::PDiffs "false"; will finally stop the torture my computer is put through. Even though it is SSD, I can almost hear the disk or maybe CPU grinding without it. I don't know who wrote the PDiffs stuff, but I bet they don't use it day to day as they

Re: apt vs. SSD computers

2012-12-10 Thread jidanni
OK thanks everybody. I suppose I will just hit ^C next time aptitude asks me if I want to do nothing, rather than dumping it completely for apt-get. Cc'ing Bob just in case he is, like me, not subscribed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubs