freebsd stable - Sep 2005 - 6-Release Beta 5: extremely slow installation in VMWare 4.52

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

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

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
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Hey,

Where do you see 6-STABLE?
I can only find BETA5 of 6.x.
Correct me when I'm wrong :)

Grtz,
--
Harrie Bos