Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 09:27:08 -0400 (EDT) From: "Christopher W. Aiken" <cwaiken@icubed.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: UPDATE: FreeBSD 4.3 --> pits Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0106220902330.16722-100000@users.icubed.com>
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Cheese... If people would READ the posts instead of accusing the posters of bashing FBSD. FBSD is my O/S of choice on my home PC. I have been using it since 3.5 and have had absolutely no problems until I loaded 4.3. Thanks to those that tried to help via emails. As an experiment I reloaded 4.2 w/o any selected packages and w/o X. Install time was 15 minutes. Definitely not a hardware problem. I then installed 4.3 w/o any selected packages and w/o X. Install time was 35 minutes. More than twice the 4.2 install. I then opened up a second terminal (in 4.3) and issued a "top". I went back to first terminal and ran /stand/sysinstall, selected all of the XFree86 4.0 packages I could find and started the install. Lo and behold it was NOT a hardware problem as some suspected. I appears that pkg_add copies the file from the CD to some temp file. This copy is very quick. The "top" command show that problem is with "gzip/tar/mtree/rm" commands that are being executed by the pkg_add command. I have a 300Mz PIII system with 192MB ram. The "top" command indicates that I have 10MB active, 145MB inactive, and the rest was allocated to buffers etc. Why is 145MB inactive? This is not the case in 4.2. Also the CPU is 98% idle during the whole process. Again why? The "gzip/tar/mtree/rm" commands are using 0.01% of the CPU. Is this normal? I don't believe this low CPU usage is the norm in 4.2 either. The bigger the files the more time it took for the whole pkg_add process. The /stand/sysinstall status line was reporting the "Package xxxx was successfully read, waiting for pkg_add(1)". I left the system installing and went to bed. I took all night to load the selected XFree86 packages. The whole install of 4.2 with XFree86, Gnome, KDE, and other selected packages took less than an hour. Again I'm not BASHING FBSD, I'm only trying to find out why 4.3 is such a dog on my home PC. -- -=[cwa]=- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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