[opensuse-factory] installing kernel takes too long
Anyone besides me notice it can take an absurd length of time to install a kernel? I upgrade everything else with smart with kernel locked, then install kernel-pae/kernel-pae-base using rpm -ivh. (I leave old kernels installed for sometimes months.) Lately on some machines of up to 2.0GHz I'm seeing way too much time to install, possibly since the kernel packaging split. I've not remembered to time it yet, but it seems it may be in the 10 to 20 minute range. -- "Love is not easily angered. Love does not demand its own way." 1 Corinthians 13:5 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Hi Felix,
Anyone besides me notice it can take an absurd length of time to install a kernel? I upgrade everything else with smart with kernel locked, then install kernel-pae/kernel-pae-base using rpm -ivh. (I leave old kernels installed for sometimes months.) Lately on some machines of up to 2.0GHz I'm seeing way too much time to install, possibly since the kernel packaging split. I've not remembered to time it yet, but it seems it may be in the 10 to 20 minute range. it is allready a few weeks old, but might be something like: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436735
What processes are eating cpu during the upgrade? HTH Felix Möller -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On 2008/11/13 19:54 (GMT+0100) Felix Möller composed:
Anyone besides me notice it can take an absurd length of time to install a kernel? I upgrade everything else with smart with kernel locked, then install kernel-pae/kernel-pae-base using rpm -ivh. (I leave old kernels installed for sometimes months.) Lately on some machines of up to 2.0GHz I'm seeing way too much time to install, possibly since the kernel packaging split. I've not remembered to time it yet, but it seems it may be in the 10 to 20 minute range.
it is allready a few weeks old, but might be something like: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436735
I don't see that, and wouldn't expect to since it was fixed so long ago.
What processes are eating cpu during the upgrade?
On Sempron Socket A 2.0GHz, doing 'rpm -ivh kernel-pae-base-2.6.27.5-2.2.i586.rpm kernel-pae-2.6.27.5-2.2.i586.rpm' most of the time top showed update-bootload taking 96% or more CPU, for a total time of about 15 minutes. It looks like initrd gets built twice, once from pae-base with only a skeleton of modules that excludes HD storage access, then from pae with IDE and other necessary modules added. ps -a tail was typically: 4913 tty3 00:00:01 rpm 4915 tty3 00:00:00 sh 7231 tty3 00:00:00 bootloader_entr 7240 tty3 00:01:18 update-bootload 7509 pts/0 00:00:00 ps 20809 tty6 00:00:00 bash 20846 tty6 00:00:11 top 20848 tty2 00:00:00 bash 20891 tty2 00:00:04 mc 20892 ? 00:00:00 cons.saver 20893 pts/0 00:00:00 bash 21119 ? 00:00:03 hald 21120 ? 00:00:00 hald-runner 21131 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-inpu 21163 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-stor 21164 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-stor 21165 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-stor 21167 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-stor 21168 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-stor 21173 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-stor 21174 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-stor 21176 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-acpi 21250 ? 00:00:00 udevd 22226 ? 00:00:00 smartd -- "Love is not easily angered. Love does not demand its own way." 1 Corinthians 13:5 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Felix Miata wrote:
On 2008/11/13 19:54 (GMT+0100) Felix Möller composed:
Anyone besides me notice it can take an absurd length of time to install a kernel? I upgrade everything else with smart with kernel locked, then install kernel-pae/kernel-pae-base using rpm -ivh. (I leave old kernels installed for sometimes months.) Lately on some machines of up to 2.0GHz I'm seeing way too much time to install, possibly since the kernel packaging split. I've not remembered to time it yet, but it seems it may be in the 10 to 20 minute range.
it is allready a few weeks old, but might be something like: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436735
I don't see that, and wouldn't expect to since it was fixed so long ago.
What processes are eating cpu during the upgrade?
On Sempron Socket A 2.0GHz, doing 'rpm -ivh kernel-pae-base-2.6.27.5-2.2.i586.rpm kernel-pae-2.6.27.5-2.2.i586.rpm' most of the time top showed update-bootload taking 96% or more CPU, for a total time of about 15 minutes. It looks like initrd gets built twice, once from pae-base with only a skeleton of modules that excludes HD storage access, then from pae with IDE and other necessary modules added. ps -a tail was typically: 4913 tty3 00:00:01 rpm 4915 tty3 00:00:00 sh 7231 tty3 00:00:00 bootloader_entr 7240 tty3 00:01:18 update-bootload 7509 pts/0 00:00:00 ps 20809 tty6 00:00:00 bash 20846 tty6 00:00:11 top 20848 tty2 00:00:00 bash 20891 tty2 00:00:04 mc 20892 ? 00:00:00 cons.saver 20893 pts/0 00:00:00 bash 21119 ? 00:00:03 hald 21120 ? 00:00:00 hald-runner 21131 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-inpu 21163 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-stor 21164 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-stor 21165 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-stor 21167 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-stor 21168 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-stor 21173 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-stor 21174 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-stor 21176 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-acpi 21250 ? 00:00:00 udevd 22226 ? 00:00:00 smartd
I see similar times on a AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+ box with 4G of storage - with "zypper dup", operating at cpu MHz : 3000.000. It must have lots of stuff to mess with when upgrading kernels. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
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Felix Miata
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Felix Möller
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Sid Boyce