Re: [osol-discuss] image-update incredibly slow
On 05/19/2010 07:14 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: If at all possible, I'd recommend starting with a fresh installation from the later CD. If not possible ... at least make a backup before beginning. Speaking of, I've a b134 installed, but I do have some zfs volumes under the rpool which is a mirrored set. Anyone know, If I do a fresh install from whatever the new release will be, will the installer give me the option to save those volumes? (They're not in any file systems used for OS files.) Or will it completely wipe the rpool? ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] image-update incredibly slow
[moving to pkg-discuss] On 05/19/10 05:04 PM, Antoine Benkemoun wrote: Hello, I am trying to update an OpenSolaris 2009.06 Xen VM (dom0 is Debian Lenny) from build 111 to 134. It is incredibly slow, you can't even imagine... Yesterday, I started the process at 11PM and at 6PM today it crashed towards the end of the installation phase. I stopped it then and restarted it tonight and it does not show any signs of life after three hours stuck at Creating plan. I started it in a screen so it shouldn't have to do with my terminal and/or SSH connection. It did the upgrade process on my Intel Atom + ADSL 7Mbit/s and it took 5 hours. I guess it's an acceptable time for a 23 version upgrade but this VM is on a reasonably sized server (Quad Core, 4Gb of RAM) with 100Mbit/s of Internet bandwidth. I used the following commands : pkg set-publisher -O http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev opensolaris.org http://opensolaris.org pkg image-update What could be crashing the process and making it so incredibly slow ? Usually the culprit is the amount of available memory or the connection being used. However, other possibilities include significant I/O performance issues. The image-update process itself once all of the package content has been downloaded should take just a few minutes with sufficiently fast I/O. Have you checked the output of 'zpool status' for errors? Do you have at least 1GB of memory available (free) when you start the image-update? Cheers, -Shawn ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] image-update incredibly slow
Hello, I am trying to update an OpenSolaris 2009.06 Xen VM (dom0 is Debian Lenny) from build 111 to 134. It is incredibly slow, you can't even imagine... Yesterday, I started the process at 11PM and at 6PM today it crashed towards the end of the installation phase. I stopped it then and restarted it tonight and it does not show any signs of life after three hours stuck at Creating plan. I started it in a screen so it shouldn't have to do with my terminal and/or SSH connection. It did the upgrade process on my Intel Atom + ADSL 7Mbit/s and it took 5 hours. I guess it's an acceptable time for a 23 version upgrade but this VM is on a reasonably sized server (Quad Core, 4Gb of RAM) with 100Mbit/s of Internet bandwidth. I used the following commands : pkg set-publisher -O http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev opensolaris.org pkg image-update What could be crashing the process and making it so incredibly slow ? Thank you in advance for your help, Antoine ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] image-update incredibly slow
From: opensolaris-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:opensolaris- discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Antoine Benkemoun I am trying to update an OpenSolaris 2009.06 Xen VM (dom0 is Debian Lenny) from build 111 to 134. It is incredibly slow, you can't even imagine... I hope you made a VM snapshot before you began. The upgrade process, for me, has never gone smoothly. (Hopefully other people will say they've had better luck than me.) In fact, what I did was about as vanilla as you could possibly be. I installed fresh clean 2009.06 and moved directly into upgrading. If at all possible, I'd recommend starting with a fresh installation from the later CD. If not possible ... at least make a backup before beginning. Sorry I don't have any comments about the slowness. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
