Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: LONG: Somebody pls help me - Loading package info files...this will take a few minutes

This thread may help.

https://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=70116

Something is wrong with your hardware or software, since I have tried to use OpenACS 4.6 on a p3 notebook inside vmware and it was not that slow.

Is it only OpenACS that is slow, check the other apps too?  Anyway hope you get to install OpenACS.