[windsurfer]

Debbugs works great for being last updated 12 years ago. It's main interface is email, after all, so the web interface is read-only. I think the real issue here is the hardware it's running on.

[mwcampbell]

Forking a new process to run a Perl CGI script for every request is going to be far from optimal on any hardware.

[secure]

With regards to hardware being the issue:

The last I’ve heard was that debbugs is run on the fastest hardware the Debian project has available, i.e. one of the few machines with fast SSDs.