I just installed debian on another machine, and it's slow as molasses. It's an apex 486/33, with a 400mb on / and 514 on sr, with 20mb of ram.
For example, when launching dselect and asking to choose packages, it takes a couple of minutes until it gets there. It is a few seconds on a similar machine with 8M and 2 80M drives. After downloading files, it takes minutes on most of htem while checking them. WHen deleting, it's 20-30 seconds each. And top takes about 20% of cpu time (or is that still broken, but it all seems to add up about right). man also takes forever. the only suspicions i have so far: 1) almost all 20m of memory is used. is this normal? [with just dsel going] 2) the interleave on the drives. The bios says it's 3. These are 63 & 65 sector drives; is this normal? 3) there is a scsi controller, though, so far, i've failed to configure it to read the cd. rick -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .