Take the 2-minute tour ×  I always feel anxious when installing
new libraries to my server. Are are any other implications then
little less free hard drive space? Theoretically, apt-get
install ... should not effect the performance anyhow, right?
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vote 2 down vote accepted  Performance? Not unless the drive
were filled or there's really really bad fragmentation (and if
it's hitting the drive that much, you probably need more memory
or have another problem)  The only way more libraries would
"hurt" anything are if those libraries hose other system
libraries or if they're trojaned. If you have backups you
shouldn't need to worry.  Performance-wise having things sitting
on the hard drive shouldn't affect anything. Only running
applications using resources (memory, processor, network I/O,
etc.) would affect performance...except when doing backups.
Using more disk space means it can take longer to do backups.
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