Hi, guys. Is this mailing list a right place for such questions or should I ask somewhere else?
-- Peter. On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 11:29 AM, Peter Volkov <peter.vol...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi! We've tried to use network boot loading kernel and initramfs with http > but we found this to be terribly slow. Our ~400Mb initramfs was loaded more > then hour on 10Gbit/s network! > > Googling around best I found was this redhat notice: > https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1262653 (Installing RHEL 7 with GRUB2 > HTTP is very slow or timeouts.) Although it is written there that: "It's a > known issue that in heavy network traffic. The GRUB2 HTTP protocol is very > slow and risks timeout failures.", I failed to find any bugreport on that. > The best I found is the following bug report: > http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?49531 but as far as I understand this > should not cause such dramatic slowdown in single http connection. > > So is this really known? What causes this? Are there any workarounds? > > Relevant part of our configuration: > > insmod http > set root='(http)' > menuentry 'Gentoo Linux' { > linux /kernel > initrd /initramfs > } > > -- > Peter. >
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