Package: grub-common Version: 1.97~beta3-1 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/sbin/grub-probe
It is not only slow, it is *painfully* slow. PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 10708 root 20 0 4096 844 552 R 99 0.0 0:05.27 grub-probe Installing new version of config file /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ... Generating grub.cfg ... Found Debian background: moreblue-orbit-grub.png Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30-1-amd64 Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.30-1-amd64 Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin Found Windows Vista (loader) on /dev/sda1 Found Debian GNU/Linux (lenny/sid) on /dev/sdc3 done And no, it is not the disk driver, it is grub-probe that is using 100% CPU time. This is on AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+. And not only it is slow, it run twice when installing packages. grub_probe is by far the slowest part of installing 600MB of packages. - Adam -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (50, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages grub-common depends on: ii base-files 5.0.0 Debian base system miscellaneous f ii libc6 2.9-27 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libfreetype6 2.3.9-5 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libncurses5 5.7+20090803-2 shared libraries for terminal hand ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15 compression library - runtime Versions of packages grub-common recommends: pn os-prober <none> (no description available) Versions of packages grub-common suggests: ii multiboot-doc 0.97-58 The Multiboot specification -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
