Re: d-i slowness on QNAP TS-209

2010-06-21 Thread Marcus Better
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Michlmayr wrote: Shouldn't be that slow. Is it literally _minutes_ for each step? Yes, sometimes. Just now it took three minutes after confirming the partitioning, before any progress indicator came up. But actually on this third or fourth

Re: d-i slowness on QNAP TS-209

2010-06-21 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* John Reiser ven...@bitwagon.com [2010-06-20 16:12]: In 2006 it was literally minutes on an NSLU2 [low-memory mode.] Yes, I can believe that but the TS-209 is a much more powerful device than the NSLU2. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: d-i slowness on QNAP TS-209

2010-06-21 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Andrew McGlashan andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au [2010-06-21 13:23]: I understand, correct me if I am wrong, that bind9 has issues with ARM machines at this time. I'm not aware of any. Do you have a pointer? There was a severe problem with bind9 on mips but that got fixed (#516616).

Re: d-i slowness on QNAP TS-209

2010-06-21 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Andrew McGlashan andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au [2010-06-21 20:08]: There was a severe problem with bind9 on mips but that got fixed (#516616). Is this the same thing or a different one? Yep, it's that bug, which eventually got fixed. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/

Re: d-i slowness on QNAP TS-209

2010-06-21 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Andrew McGlashan andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au [2010-06-21 20:08]: There was a severe problem with bind9 on mips but that got fixed (#516616). Is this the same thing or a different one? Yep, it's that bug, which eventually got fixed. Excellent, thanks.

Re: d-i slowness on QNAP TS-209

2010-06-21 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Marcus Better mar...@better.se [2010-06-21 10:13]: But actually on this third or fourth attempt it was much snappier, with no abnormal delays in partition setup. The only difference is that I am configuring a much smaller LVM now than on previous attempts (5 GB instead of the whole 2 TB).

Re: Re: Debian installer for GuruPlug

2010-06-21 Thread Johan Kroeckel
Apparently 2010.06~rc2-1 does not include ext2load. Is that done on purpose? Johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Re: Debian installer for GuruPlug

2010-06-21 Thread Clint Adams
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 06:43:29PM +0200, Johan Kroeckel wrote: Apparently 2010.06~rc2-1 does not include ext2load. Is that done on purpose? If you're talking about u-boot, it is left out by default, and it does not appear to work when enabled. If you'd care to try it yourself, flash

Re: d-i slowness on QNAP TS-209

2010-06-21 Thread Marcus Better
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Michlmayr wrote: Do the delays also happen before you set up the RAID or only afterwards? Possibly afterwards, but I'm not sure. The older installer from your repo was much snappier, it's installing happily now. Also, can you check with

Re: d-i slowness on QNAP TS-209

2010-06-21 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Marcus Better mar...@better.se [2010-06-21 22:27]: Also, can you check with ps whether there are any processes that use up a lot of cpu or memory? Is it possible to log in with another shell while the installation is in progress? Yes, when you connect via SSH it will ask you whether