Bug#492077: debian-installer: avoid searching for libgcc_s.so

Subject: debian-installer: avoid searching for libgcc_s.so Package: debian-installer Version: Severity: wishlist *** Please type your report below this line *** Many executables used by the installer depend on libgcc_s.so. Searching for this library (by ld-linux.so just after execve) takes more t

Bug#492086: partman: menus are very slow

Subject: partman: menus are very slow Package: debian-installer Severity: wishlist *** Please type your report below this line *** The menus used by the partition manager during an install in low-memory mode are very slow. Several seconds elapse between and the next menu. This is too long. The

Bug#492086: partman: menus are very slow

Joey Hess wrote: > Conclusion 2: Benchmark before optimising. In this case, trying to > optimise away the wrong system calls is a waste of time. The benchmark code and measurements [snipped] are not a good comparison with the actual environment of low-memory mode. In particular, the use of swap

Bug#492086: partman: menus are very slow

Joey Hess wrote: >>Consider this shell code: >>which runs in 22.2 seconds on my NSLU2 for 1000 executions of "cat /dev/null" >>in an environment much more similar to real partman than previous benchmarks. >>Changing to "PATH=/bin " runs in 21.5 seconds, which is 0.7 seconds faster. >>Altering the

Bug#492086: partman: menus are very slow

Here are the code and the measurements. partman/lib/base.sh currently uses statements such as: template=$(cat $dir/question) As reported before, with the long default PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin then current busybox sh using both fork() and execve() ru

slow list of package names in low-memory install

While using the Debian installer in low-memory mode to put a Debian system onto a NSLU2 (ARM processor with 32MB RAM), I noticed that the installer seemed slow. Running "ps" repeatedly in a concurrent session, I often saw about 80 processes per second, and many command lines of the form: [ = ]

Re: slow list of package names in low-memory install

Joey Hess wrote: > John Reiser wrote: > >>While using the Debian installer in low-memory mode to put a Debian system >>onto a NSLU2 (ARM processor with 32MB RAM), I noticed that the installer >>seemed slow. Running "ps" repeatedly in a concurrent session, I

Bug#286142: installation-reports: bad interface name "IDE1 (hda)" in manual partitioning

g APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-1-386 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) -- John Reiser, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#286149: cross-install fails from Fedora Core 3

ing sarge using Network CD-ROM bootstrap. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-1-386 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) -- John Reiser, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNS

Bug#286153: installation-reports: GRUB hang with infinite beep after Reboot

policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-1-386 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) -- John Reiser, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]