Re: slow untar during installation

2009-08-03 Thread Claudio Jeker
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 09:32:32AM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2009-08-03, Jan Stary wrote: > > On Jul 30 22:06:41, Stuart Henderson wrote: > >> On 2009-07-30, Jan Stary wrote: > >> > is 128M, that's why I use xserv45.tgz and not base45.tgz; > >> > and it should have been tar xzpf I guess

Re: slow untar during installation

2009-08-03 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2009-08-03, Jan Stary wrote: > On Jul 30 22:06:41, Stuart Henderson wrote: >> On 2009-07-30, Jan Stary wrote: >> > is 128M, that's why I use xserv45.tgz and not base45.tgz; >> > and it should have been tar xzpf I guess - does it make >> > a difference? And it shloud be done in single user - bu

Re: slow untar during installation

2009-08-03 Thread Jan Stary
On Jul 30 22:06:41, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2009-07-30, Jan Stary wrote: > > is 128M, that's why I use xserv45.tgz and not base45.tgz; > > and it should have been tar xzpf I guess - does it make > > a difference? And it shloud be done in single user - but > > the machine is almost idle, reall

Re: slow untar during installation

2009-07-30 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2009-07-30, Jan Stary wrote: > is 128M, that's why I use xserv45.tgz and not base45.tgz; > and it should have been tar xzpf I guess - does it make > a difference? And it shloud be done in single user - but > the machine is almost idle, really.) xserv has a small number of large files, whereas

Re: slow untar during installation

2009-07-30 Thread Jan Stary
On Jul 30 11:25:23, Stuart Henderson wrote: > >> it was even async, which makes me curious about the install slowness. > >> Could the card or the exact mount options be the cause of that? > > Well, you already noticed the main difference; one is async, the > other uses softdep. That should sugges

Re: slow untar during installation

2009-07-30 Thread Jan Stary
On Jul 30 14:29:06, Tobias Walkowiak wrote: > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:25:23AM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > > > > I suppose you use an CF-card with about x133 speed. I had the same > > > problem. > > > After using a card with at least x233 speed I didn't have that problem > > > when > >

Re: slow untar during installation

2009-07-30 Thread Tobias Walkowiak
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:25:23AM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > > I suppose you use an CF-card with about x133 speed. I had the same problem. > > After using a card with at least x233 speed I didn't have that problem when > > untaring anymore. > > The speed rating by itself isn't very usefu

Re: slow untar during installation

2009-07-30 Thread Stuart Henderson
>> it was even async, which makes me curious about the install slowness. >> Could the card or the exact mount options be the cause of that? Well, you already noticed the main difference; one is async, the other uses softdep. That should suggest a simple test you can make; untarring on a running s

Re: slow untar during installation

2009-07-29 Thread Tobias Walkowiak
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 06:14:18PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > When installing 4.5 on an ALIX (see dmesg below) the ALIX is a good choice! > phase of actually untar'ing the tgz sets was very slow: > sets became -stalled- even if untared from local disk (pre-downloaded). I suppose you use an CF-car

slow untar during installation

2009-07-29 Thread Jan Stary
When installing 4.5 on an ALIX (see dmesg below) the phase of actually untar'ing the tgz sets was very slow: sets became -stalled- even if untared from local disk (pre-downloaded). The installation (sans X) took about an hour because of that. The local disk is a (not very fast) CF card. So I tried