Re: howto improve speed of lh build with more RAM

2010-04-22 Thread Jonas Stein
there are a couple of things you can improve: * use tmpfs for the build directory Thank you. That improved the speed a lot. It was up to 3 hours before. With tmpfs its only 50 minutes. -- Jonas Stein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: howto improve speed of lh build with more RAM

2010-03-26 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 03/26/2010 01:51 PM, surreal wrote: chill mate.no offense intended. i know you guys work hard in replying to queries. you: use parallel mksquashfs me: squashfs is always parallel since very long time you: no, 3.3 is not parlallel me: 3.3 *is* parallel, even 2.2 is. you: "i

Re: howto improve speed of lh build with more RAM

2010-03-26 Thread surreal
chill mate.no offense intended. i know you guys work hard in replying to queries. 2010/3/26 Daniel Baumann > On 03/26/2010 12:22 PM, surreal wrote: > >> i am still stuck with lenny...and it works fine for me, so i didnt >> upgrade. >> > > seriously, i'm giving up on you.. > > > -- > Address:

Re: howto improve speed of lh build with more RAM

2010-03-26 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 03/26/2010 12:22 PM, surreal wrote: i am still stuck with lenny...and it works fine for me, so i didnt upgrade. seriously, i'm giving up on you.. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: daniel.baum...@panthera-systems.net Internet: http:

Re: howto improve speed of lh build with more RAM

2010-03-26 Thread surreal
i am still stuck with lenny...and it works fine for me, so i didnt upgrade. 2010/3/26 Daniel Baumann > On 03/26/2010 11:54 AM, surreal wrote: > >> Try using squashfs-tools, version 1:3.3-7 >> > > 3.3-7 builds in parallel just fine, even 2.2 does. > > > -- > Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgu

Re: howto improve speed of lh build with more RAM

2010-03-26 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 03/26/2010 11:54 AM, surreal wrote: Try using squashfs-tools, version 1:3.3-7 3.3-7 builds in parallel just fine, even 2.2 does. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: daniel.baum...@panthera-systems.net Internet: http://people.panther

Re: howto improve speed of lh build with more RAM

2010-03-26 Thread surreal
Duh! Try using squashfs-tools, version 1:3.3-7 2010/3/26 Daniel Baumann > On 03/26/2010 06:21 AM, surreal wrote: > >> try using parallel mksquashfs..it utilizes both or all CPU's while >> squashifying the image..! >> > > there's no non-parallel mksquashfs anymore since almost like forever. >

Re: howto improve speed of lh build with more RAM

2010-03-25 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 03/26/2010 06:21 AM, surreal wrote: try using parallel mksquashfs..it utilizes both or all CPU's while squashifying the image..! there's no non-parallel mksquashfs anymore since almost like forever. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: dani

Re: howto improve speed of lh build with more RAM

2010-03-25 Thread surreal
try using parallel mksquashfs..it utilizes both or all CPU's while squashifying the image..! 2010/3/26 Daniel Baumann > On 03/25/2010 10:59 PM, Jonas Stein wrote: > >> Now i need something like >> lh config --build-dir /var/local/deblive/build >> > > cd /var/local/deblive/build > lh config &&

Re: howto improve speed of lh build with more RAM

2010-03-25 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 03/25/2010 10:59 PM, Jonas Stein wrote: Now i need something like lh config --build-dir /var/local/deblive/build cd /var/local/deblive/build lh config && lh build How is that done? debootstrap lenny lenny http://ftp.debian.org/debian chroot lenny apt-get install live-helper squashfs-tool

Re: howto improve speed of lh build with more RAM

2010-03-25 Thread Jonas Stein
>> but lh build wants to delete chroot. Who has an idea, how i can make >> best effort with the RAM to improve the speed during build process? > What about the time it takes to create the squashfs image? > Isn't it large? Doesn't it also consume tons of memory? The sqashfs binary uses both CPU C

Re: howto improve speed of lh build with more RAM

2010-03-25 Thread Jonas Stein
>> i want to speed up the generation of new debianlive images. > there are a couple of things you can improve: >* use most recent live-helper (from sid) [x] done >* make sure you have a local mirror accessible [x] done >* use tmpfs for the build directory That sounds interesting.

Re: howto improve speed of lh build with more RAM

2010-03-25 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 03/25/2010 02:03 PM, Jonas Stein wrote: i want to speed up the generation of new debianlive images. there are a couple of things you can improve: * use most recent live-helper (from sid) * make sure you have a local mirror accessible * use tmpfs for the build directory * build withi

Re: howto improve speed of lh build with more RAM

2010-03-25 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 02:03:33PM +0100, Jonas Stein wrote: > Hi, > > i want to speed up the generation of new debianlive images. > At the moment it takes 2.5 hours to build a 4 GB System an put it into > an squashfs. > > The CPU utilisation was not 100%. The HDD seems to be the bottleneck. > >

howto improve speed of lh build with more RAM

2010-03-25 Thread Jonas Stein
Hi, i want to speed up the generation of new debianlive images. At the moment it takes 2.5 hours to build a 4 GB System an put it into an squashfs. The CPU utilisation was not 100%. The HDD seems to be the bottleneck. I have installed 8 GB RAM now. My idea was to make a 6 GB ramdisk with ker