[oi-dev] upgrading to oi_151a blocking on hard drive.

[Jonathan Adams]

yeah, i'm in it at the moment ... I had to to send the message via gmail ...

the old system takes 2 minutes to boot, the new one about 10-12 mins.

Jon

On 25 August 2011 10:45, Alasdair Lumsden <alasdairrr at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> Sorry for asking the obvious, but is all fine if you boot back up in an older boot environment?
>
> (I'd like to rule out coincidental hardware issues since harddrives are notoriously sucky)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alasdair
>
>
>
> On 25 Aug 2011, at 10:25, Jonathan Adams wrote:
>
>> Last night I removed the BE's after kernel a4e1558c05 and tried to do an update.
>>
>> after updating to the latest kernel I rebooted the machine and left
>> for the evening to see if it would boot after a very long time.
>>
>> This morning I was pleasantly surprised to find a log on screen, and
>> was able to log on to the computer, but it appeared to be sluggish.
>>
>> Knowing that it did boot I decided to boot the latest kernel with the
>> verbose option ... and it all booted, slowly, but with no noticeable
>> differences to a normal boot (with the exception of "network/location
>> Method or service timed out" after about 5 minutes.
>>
>> after booting it appeared to be sluggish again, so i ran an "iostat
>> -zxc 5" and noticed that my hard disk was running with 100% blocking
>> most of the time, with very low disk usage.
>>
>> I started some applications (gedit, firefox, thunderbird ...) firefox
>> and thunderbird were essentially unusable, gedit was just about able
>> to open and save files.
>>
>> I would really like to be able to upgrade and look at the kvm code,
>> and am happy to give any information/logs that are needed.
>>
>> Jon
>>
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