Re: d-i slowness on QNAP TS-209

2010-06-22 Thread Marcus Better
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Michlmayr wrote: > In any case, please send the above desription of the problem to > debian-b...@lists.debian.org since -boot has more people who can help > debug debian-installer issues. Ok, so I did [1] and got pointed at #586404. So it seems

Re: d-i slowness on QNAP TS-209

2010-06-21 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Marcus Better [2010-06-21 22:27]: > > Also, can you check with "ps" whether there are any processes that use > > up a lot of cpu or memory? > > Is it possible to log in with another shell while the installation is in > progress? Yes, when you connect via SSH it will ask you whether you want t

Re: d-i slowness on QNAP TS-209

2010-06-21 Thread Marcus Better
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Michlmayr wrote: > Do the delays also happen before you set up the RAID or only afterwards? Possibly afterwards, but I'm not sure. The older installer from your repo was much snappier, it's installing happily now. > Also, can you check with

Re: d-i slowness on QNAP TS-209

2010-06-21 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Marcus Better [2010-06-21 10:13]: > But actually on this third or fourth attempt it was much snappier, > with no abnormal delays in partition setup. The only difference is > that I am configuring a much smaller LVM now than on previous > attempts (5 GB instead of the whole 2 TB). Yesterday I had

Re: d-i slowness on QNAP TS-209

2010-06-21 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Andrew McGlashan [2010-06-21 20:08]: There was a severe problem with bind9 on mips but that got fixed (#516616). Is this the same thing or a different one? Yep, it's that bug, which eventually got fixed. Excellent, thanks. -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlasha

Re: d-i slowness on QNAP TS-209

2010-06-21 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Andrew McGlashan [2010-06-21 20:08]: > >There was a severe problem with bind9 on mips but that got fixed > >(#516616). > > Is this the same thing or a different one? Yep, it's that bug, which eventually got fixed. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Re: d-i slowness on QNAP TS-209

2010-06-21 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Andrew McGlashan [2010-06-21 13:23]: I understand, correct me if I am wrong, that bind9 has "issues" with ARM machines at this time. I'm not aware of any. Do you have a pointer? There was a severe problem with bind9 on mips but that got fixed (#516616). Is this t

Re: d-i slowness on QNAP TS-209

2010-06-21 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Andrew McGlashan [2010-06-21 13:23]: > I understand, correct me if I am wrong, that bind9 has "issues" with > ARM machines at this time. I'm not aware of any. Do you have a pointer? There was a severe problem with bind9 on mips but that got fixed (#516616). -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cy

Re: d-i slowness on QNAP TS-209

2010-06-21 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* John Reiser [2010-06-20 16:12]: > In 2006 it was literally minutes on an NSLU2 ["low-memory mode."] Yes, I can believe that but the TS-209 is a much more powerful device than the NSLU2. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.o

Re: d-i slowness on QNAP TS-209

2010-06-21 Thread Marcus Better
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Michlmayr wrote: > Shouldn't be that slow. Is it literally _minutes_ for each step? Yes, sometimes. Just now it took three minutes after confirming the partitioning, before any progress indicator came up. But actually on this third or fourth

Re: d-i slowness on QNAP TS-209

2010-06-20 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, Marcus Better wrote: I'm currently installing squeeze on a QNAP TS-209 with two 2 TB disk drives. The only really major pain is the speed, especially the delays between various d-i screens. It can take a few minutes for some steps, like entering the RAID manager, or after configuring a par

Re: d-i slowness on QNAP TS-209

2010-06-20 Thread John Reiser
On 06/20/2010 03:40 PM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Marcus Better [2010-06-20 22:24]: >> I'm currently installing squeeze on a QNAP TS-209 with two 2 TB disk >> drives. The only really major pain is the speed, especially the >> delays between various d-i screens. It can take a few minutes for >>

Re: d-i slowness on QNAP TS-209

2010-06-20 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Marcus Better [2010-06-20 22:24]: > I'm currently installing squeeze on a QNAP TS-209 with two 2 TB disk > drives. The only really major pain is the speed, especially the > delays between various d-i screens. It can take a few minutes for > some steps, like entering the RAID manager, or after c

d-i slowness on QNAP TS-209

2010-06-20 Thread Marcus Better
Hi, I'm currently installing squeeze on a QNAP TS-209 with two 2 TB disk drives. The only really major pain is the speed, especially the delays between various d-i screens. It can take a few minutes for some steps, like entering the RAID manager, or after configuring a partition. Is there room