When installing 4.5 on an ALIX (see dmesg below) the
phase of actually untar'ing the tgz sets was very slow:
sets became -stalled- even if untared from local disk (pre-downloaded).
The installation (sans X) took about an hour because of that.
The local disk is a (not very fast) CF card. So I tried untaring
the very same sets after the installation, on a running system,
to see if that's what's slow. Now, it was very much faster than
during the installation. (Sorry, I don't have any measurements of that.)
On the installed, running system, I use noatime and softdep.
How exactly are the 'target' filesystems mounted during installation?
Last time I looked (ctrl-z during an install, mount -v, then continuing),
it was even async, which makes me curious about the install slowness.
Could the card or the exact mount options be the cause of that?
I am not trying to tweak the machine in any way to become 'faster';
once installed, it runs just fine. I just don't want to spend an hour
waiting for the tgz's to untar on the next reinstall.
Thanks for your time
Jan
(wd0 is the CF card on which the system was installed;
sd0 and sd1 are USB disks that were added later)
OpenBSD 4.5 (GENERIC) #1749: Sat Feb 28 14:51:18 MST 2009
[email protected]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
cpu0: Geode(TM) Integrated Processor by AMD PCS ("AuthenticAMD" 586-class) 499
MHz
cpu0: FPU,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,CX8,SEP,PGE,CMOV,CFLUSH,MMX
real mem = 259284992 (247MB)
avail mem = 242405376 (231MB)
mainbus0 at root
bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 08/21/07, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfa960
apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2 (slowidle)
apm0: AC on, battery charge unknown
pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xf0000/0xdfb4
pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev 1.0 @ 0xfdf40/112 (5 entries)
pcibios0: bad IRQ table checksum
pcibios0: PCI BIOS has 5 Interrupt Routing table entries
pcibios0: PCI Exclusive IRQs: 5 10 11
pcibios0: no compatible PCI ICU found
pcibios0: Warning, unable to fix up PCI interrupt routing
pcibios0: PCI bus #0 is the last bus
bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0x8000 0xc8000/0xa800 0xef000/0x1000!
cpu0 at mainbus0: (uniprocessor)
amdmsr0 at mainbus0
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (bios)
pchb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "AMD Geode LX" rev 0x31
vga1 at pci0 dev 1 function 1 "AMD Geode LX Video" rev 0x00
wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
glxsb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 2 "AMD Geode LX Crypto" rev 0x00: RNG AES
vr0 at pci0 dev 13 function 0 "VIA VT6105M RhineIII" rev 0x96: irq 11, address
00:0d:b9:0c:e1:40
ukphy0 at vr0 phy 1: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface, rev. 3: OUI 0x004063,
model 0x0034
glxpcib0 at pci0 dev 15 function 0 "AMD CS5536 ISA" rev 0x03: rev 0, 32-bit
3579545Hz timer, watchdog, gpio
gpio0 at glxpcib0: 32 pins
pciide0 at pci0 dev 15 function 2 "AMD CS5536 IDE" rev 0x01: DMA, channel 0
wired to compatibility, channel 1 wired to compatibility
wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <ELITE PRO CF CARD 4GB>
wd0: 1-sector PIO, LBA, 3847MB, 7880544 sectors
wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2
pciide0: channel 1 ignored (disabled)
auglx0 at pci0 dev 15 function 3 "AMD CS5536 Audio" rev 0x01: irq 11, CS5536
AC97
ac97: codec id 0x414c4770 (Avance Logic ALC203 rev 0)
ac97: codec features headphone, 20 bit DAC, 18 bit ADC, No 3D Stereo
audio0 at auglx0
ohci0 at pci0 dev 15 function 4 "AMD CS5536 USB" rev 0x02: irq 5, version 1.0,
legacy support
ehci0 at pci0 dev 15 function 5 "AMD CS5536 USB" rev 0x02: irq 5
usb0 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0
uhub0 at usb0 "AMD EHCI root hub" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1
isa0 at glxpcib0
isadma0 at isa0
com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8/8 irq 3: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker>
spkr0 at pcppi0
lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378/4 irq 7
wbsio0 at isa0 port 0x2e/2: W83627HF rev 0x41
lm1 at wbsio0 port 0x290/8: W83627HF
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: reported by CPUID; using exception 16
usb1 at ohci0: USB revision 1.0
uhub1 at usb1 "AMD OHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1
biomask f765 netmask ff65 ttymask ffff
mtrr: K6-family MTRR support (2 registers)
umass0 at uhub0 port 3 configuration 1 interface 0 "JMicron USB to ATA/ATAPI
Bridge" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 2
umass0: using SCSI over Bulk-Only
scsibus0 at umass0: 2 targets, initiator 0
sd0 at scsibus0 targ 1 lun 0: <ST932032, 0AS, > SCSI2 0/direct fixed
sd0: 305245MB, 512 bytes/sec, 625142448 sec total
umass1 at uhub0 port 4 configuration 1 interface 0 "Prolific Technology Inc.
Mass Storage Device" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 3
umass1: using SCSI over Bulk-Only
scsibus1 at umass1: 2 targets, initiator 0
sd1 at scsibus1 targ 1 lun 0: <ST980815, A, 3.AL> SCSI0 0/direct fixed
sd1: 76319MB, 512 bytes/sec, 156301488 sec total
softraid0 at root
root on wd0a swap on wd0b dump on wd0b
sd1 detached
scsibus1 detached
umass1 detached
umass1 at uhub0 port 4 configuration 1 interface 0 "JMicron USB to ATA/ATAPI
Bridge" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 3
umass1: using SCSI over Bulk-Only
scsibus1 at umass1: 2 targets, initiator 0
sd1 at scsibus1 targ 1 lun 0: <SAMSUNG, HM251JJ, > SCSI2 0/direct fixed
sd1: 238475MB, 512 bytes/sec, 488397168 sec total
sd1 detached
scsibus1 detached
umass1 detached
umass1 at uhub0 port 4 configuration 1 interface 0 "Prolific Technology Inc.
Mass Storage Device" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 3
umass1: using SCSI over Bulk-Only
scsibus1 at umass1: 2 targets, initiator 0
sd1 at scsibus1 targ 1 lun 0: <ST980815, A, 3.AL> SCSI0 0/direct fixed
sd1: 76319MB, 512 bytes/sec, 156301488 sec total
# sysctl hw
hw.machine=i386
hw.model=Geode(TM) Integrated Processor by AMD PCS ("AuthenticAMD" 586-class)
hw.ncpu=1
hw.byteorder=1234
hw.pagesize=4096
hw.disknames=wd0,sd0,sd1
hw.diskcount=3
hw.sensors.lm1.temp0=71.00 degC
hw.sensors.lm1.temp1=63.00 degC
hw.sensors.lm1.temp2=58.50 degC
hw.sensors.lm1.volt0=1.22 VDC (VCore A)
hw.sensors.lm1.volt1=2.61 VDC (VCore B)
hw.sensors.lm1.volt2=3.33 VDC (+3.3V)
hw.sensors.lm1.volt3=4.97 VDC (+5V)
hw.sensors.lm1.volt4=0.00 VDC (+12V)
hw.sensors.lm1.volt5=-14.91 VDC (-12V)
hw.sensors.lm1.volt6=-7.71 VDC (-5V)
hw.sensors.lm1.volt7=4.95 VDC (5VSB)
hw.sensors.lm1.volt8=0.29 VDC (VBAT)
hw.cpuspeed=499
hw.physmem=259284992
hw.usermem=259248128
