lshw very slow on Precise

[lu333031]

Command "lshw" takes about 30s to list the hardware details (with or without sudo) on ubuntu 12.04 (3.2.0-25 kernel) on an Intel Atom CPU based system. No other OS is installed.

It used to take about 3 seconds with ubuntu 7.10 (the last time the command was run).

What has changed and can the response be made faster? Using the -class option to get selective data does not speed up the total response time for reading the HW information.

Thank you.

Lu

[Cheesemill]

30 seconds is about right.

The current version of lshw probes for a lot more hardware than the 5 year old version that you have used previously.