On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 17:43 -0600, Paul Krizak wrote:
> Compare:
> 
> RHEL3 U8 on an HP xw9300 workstation installs in about 11 minutes (5.7GB 
> of packages).
> 
> RHEL5b Client/Workstation on that exact same system takes over an hour 
> and a half to install 10GB of packages.
> 
> Anybody else noticed this?  I'm seeing this on other hardware platforms 
> too, not just the xw9300.  Notably the Sun X4100, the HP DL385G2, and 
> the Sun x2200 workstation.  Pretty much any hardware I try installing 
> RHEL5 beta2 on, it takes well over an hour to get through the package 
> installation.
> 
> Other notes:
> 
> * Systems are gigabit connected
> * Installation does @Everything in the kickstart file
> * Everything is automated, so it's not like it's waiting for half an 
> hour for me to click "ok" or something.

How much RAM in these boxes.  We've certainly seen a slowdown with 256M
machines . . . I suspect your boxes have more, but just checking.

- jkt

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