Dann,

right, using --no-listing as default and adding the --verbose option was
a possible solution, but, as discussed with Bernard, if a user turns on
the verbose option the overhead of the virtual console becomes very
expensive and the installation could take a lot of time, since all the
output is stored in /tmp/si_monitor.log on the client, periodically
captured by si_monitortk on the image server and shown in the virtual
console on the image server... more exactly the bottleneck seems to be
at the client-side when piping all the output to /tmp/si_monitor.log
(even if it is on tmpfs).

To resolve this problem we decided to bypass the virtual console if a
user wants the total listing of files and print the output directly on
the real console. But personally I'd like to use --no-listing as the
default behaviour, since the installation is lighter, faster and in
general a user doesn't care about the total listing of the files...

Maybe the optimal solution should be to:
1) remove --no-listing and add --verbose option
2) add a verbosity level parameter for the virtual console, or better
add another value to VIRTUAL_CONSOLE to tune the verbosity level, for
example:

VIRTUAL_CONSOLE=yes|no|verbose

With 'no' the virtual console is disabled, with 'yes' it's enabled (and
these are the current supported values) and with 'verbose' _all_ the
stdout and stderr are captured from the client and printed to the
virtual console.

Ideas?
-Andrea

dann frazier wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 05:44:01AM -0500, Andrea Righi wrote:
>> Author: arighi
>> Date: 2006-07-13 05:44:01 -0500 (Thu, 13 Jul 2006)
>> New Revision: 3672
>>
>> Modified:
>>    trunk/etc/autoinstallscript.template
>> Log:
>> bypass big file listings to the real console to reduce the load of data 
>> captured by virtual console
> 
> There used to be an option that just displayed a spinner instead of
> the file list during rsync installs - --no-listing or something.
> 


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