Re: slow untar during installation

2009-08-03 Thread Jan Stary
On Jul 30 22:06:41, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2009-07-30, Jan Stary h...@stare.cz wrote: is 128M, that's why I use xserv45.tgz and not base45.tgz; and it should have been tar xzpf I guess - does it make a difference? And it shloud be done in single user - but the machine is almost idle,

Re: slow untar during installation

2009-08-03 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2009-08-03, Jan Stary h...@stare.cz wrote: On Jul 30 22:06:41, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2009-07-30, Jan Stary h...@stare.cz wrote: is 128M, that's why I use xserv45.tgz and not base45.tgz; and it should have been tar xzpf I guess - does it make a difference? And it shloud be done in

Re: slow untar during installation

2009-08-03 Thread Claudio Jeker
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 09:32:32AM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2009-08-03, Jan Stary h...@stare.cz wrote: On Jul 30 22:06:41, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2009-07-30, Jan Stary h...@stare.cz wrote: is 128M, that's why I use xserv45.tgz and not base45.tgz; and it should have been tar

Re: slow untar during installation

2009-07-30 Thread Stuart Henderson
it was even async, which makes me curious about the install slowness. Could the card or the exact mount options be the cause of that? Well, you already noticed the main difference; one is async, the other uses softdep. That should suggest a simple test you can make; untarring on a running

Re: slow untar during installation

2009-07-30 Thread Tobias Walkowiak
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:25:23AM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: I suppose you use an CF-card with about x133 speed. I had the same problem. After using a card with at least x233 speed I didn't have that problem when untaring anymore. The speed rating by itself isn't very useful. The

Re: slow untar during installation

2009-07-30 Thread Jan Stary
On Jul 30 14:29:06, Tobias Walkowiak wrote: On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:25:23AM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: I suppose you use an CF-card with about x133 speed. I had the same problem. After using a card with at least x233 speed I didn't have that problem when untaring

Re: slow untar during installation

2009-07-30 Thread Jan Stary
On Jul 30 11:25:23, Stuart Henderson wrote: it was even async, which makes me curious about the install slowness. Could the card or the exact mount options be the cause of that? Well, you already noticed the main difference; one is async, the other uses softdep. That should suggest a

Re: slow untar during installation

2009-07-30 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2009-07-30, Jan Stary h...@stare.cz wrote: is 128M, that's why I use xserv45.tgz and not base45.tgz; and it should have been tar xzpf I guess - does it make a difference? And it shloud be done in single user - but the machine is almost idle, really.) xserv has a small number of large

Re: slow untar during installation

2009-07-29 Thread Tobias Walkowiak
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 06:14:18PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: When installing 4.5 on an ALIX (see dmesg below) the ALIX is a good choice! phase of actually untar'ing the tgz sets was very slow: sets became -stalled- even if untared from local disk (pre-downloaded). I suppose you use an CF-card