Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:29:39 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Christoph.Sold@bahn.de Cc: re@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6-Release Beta 5: extremely slow installation in VMWare 4.52 Message-ID: <4332CDE3.50903@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <43329D19.2080702@davit.db.de> References: <43329D19.2080702@davit.db.de>
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Christoph Sold wrote: > Hi All, > > trying to install 6-stable in a VMWare 4.5.2 WS installation, running on > an 1.6 GHz Celeron CPU. > After 3 hours, it still extracts scontrib into /usr/src directory. > On tty 3, top tells cpio ist in vlruwk state for ages. > CPU states: 0.1% user, 0.0% nice, 0.4% system, 0.8 interrupt, 99.5% idle. > > Installing Beta 4 went flawlessly, so I guess some filesystem change > since then is the culprit. > > Regards, > Christoph Sold We mostly have reports on VMWare 5, not 4, so given those reports I'm surprised that it works at all =-) I can't think of anything that has changed that would be a smoking gun. In fact, debugging was removed from BETA5, so it _should_ go faster, not slower. Do you have the ability to install BETA4 and then incrementally update the source tree? That might be a good way to find out what happened. Scott
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