[CentOS] Install of 5.4 i386 formatting is very slow
John R Pierce
pierce at hogranch.com
Thu May 6 21:37:15 UTC 2010
Jason Pyeron wrote:
>> What do you get from running 'iostat -kx 5' (be sure to wait
>> until the second report) while the formatting is running?
>>
>
> avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
> 0.53 0.00 99.47 0.00 0.00 0.00
>
> Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rkB/s wkB/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz wait svctm %util
> hdb 0.00 1881.32 0.00 27.11 0.00 7663.16 565.44 2.66 98.12 35.34 95.79
>
looks like its running in PIO IDE emulation mode per...
* 99% CPU busy in system,
* 7.7MByte/sec writes,
* 95% disk utilization.
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