[Debian-uk] Request for help speeding up dpkg

[Mark Brown]

On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 04:07:24PM +0000, Dan Hatton wrote:

> My machine has 64MB of RAM and a 1GB swap partition.

How much free memory do you have when things start to slow down?  That's
not all that much RAM and if something's decided that it wants to use a
good chunk of it actively while dpkg is running that would cause the
system to hit swap heavily which would explain the behaviour you see.

Try running top on another VT and seeing if there's anything else active
while dpkg is grinding away.

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