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Subject: Re: 6-Release Beta 5: extremely slow installation in VMWare 4.52
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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