Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 09:14:17 +0000 (UTC) From: Christoph Sold <Christoph.Sold@Bahn.de> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6-Release Beta 5: extremely slow installation in VMWare 4.52 Message-ID: <loom.20050923T110251-378@post.gmane.org> References: <43329D19.2080702@davit.db.de> <4332CDE3.50903@samsco.org>
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Scott Long <scottl <at> samsco.org> writes: > > 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 Unfortunately, our corporate firewall blocks anything but http/port80, https/port443. Thus, neither CVS nor CVSup are an option. in addition, the install is still running after 24 hours. At this time, the full install churns slowly against ports/x11-themes. I'll grab a cvs repository at home, but do not expect results before Tuesday, since I'm on vacation this weekend. One more hint: "calcru: runtime went backwards..." pops up once or twice for each file. -Christoph
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