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On 04/07/2013 09:43 PM, Jonathan Marsden wrote:
Interesting. Can you swap disk drives easily between PCs? If so, it might be worthwhile to confirm that the issue stays with the slower CPU if you swap the two drives between the two machines. If the slowness moves with the hard drive, then it is probably some sort of difference in how the machines are configured, or which packages are installed.
Jonathan:By interesting twists of fate, the slow machine actually has the newer hard-drive.
Where I have 4 partitions on the slow machine, and two partitions on the not-as-slow machine, and given the problems I've had with swapping hard-drives in the past, I will avoid doing that, if at all possible.
My conjecture of the cause of the problem, is the software updater fires-up a Python program to do the updating, and waits for a signal from the Python program that it's running. However, the wait-time chosen is not long enough for the slow machine, and where it doesn't get the signal, it decides the user has aborted the process, so it goes away.
In the meantime, the Python process finally gets going, and proceeds to update the system, totally in the background, without the foreground program monitoring its progress.
Just conjecture... -- Sincerely, Aere
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