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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