[CentOS] Install of 5.4 i386 formatting is very slow

Fri May 7 02:30:20 UTC 2010
Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com>

At Thu, 6 May 2010 17:37:19 -0400 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:

> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jason Pyeron
> > Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 17:32
> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Install of 5.4 i386 formatting is very slow
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Benjamin Franz 
> > > Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 17:12
> > > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Install of 5.4 i386 formatting is very slow
> > > 
> > > On 05/06/2010 11:16 AM, Jason Pyeron wrote:
> > > > It is writing an inode every 10 seconds. (1621 inodes in total)
> > > >
> > > > It is a recent Seagate sata HD.
> > > >
> > > > MB=Jetway J7F5M1G2E-VHE-PB
> 
> Why is my SATA drive showing up under /dev/hdb?

Your motherboard is running in IDE emulation mode and exposing the SATA
drives as IDE drives.  Many motherboards have this mode to make things
'easier' for certain older O/Ss.

> 
> > > >    
> > > What do you get from running 'iostat -kx 5' (be sure to wait 
> > > until the second report) while the formatting is running?
> > > 
> > 
> > This is running faster than during the install ( I have done 
> > a yum update now at
> > 2.6.18-164.15.1.el5)
> > 
> > Middle (inode tables: 130/235) of format on 23G logical 
> > volume [bit erratic?]:
> > 
> > avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
> >            0.26    0.00   99.74    0.00    0.00    0.00
> > 
> > Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s   r/s   w/s    rkB/s    wkB/s  avgrq-sz
> avgqu-sz await  svctm  %util
> 
> SATA hard disk:
> > hdb               0.00  1852.62  0.00 46.86     0.00  7493.19    319.82
> 2.73 58.34  20.44  95.76
> > hdb1              0.00     0.00  0.00  0.00     0.00     0.00      0.00
> 0.00 0.00   0.00   0.00
> > hdb2              0.00  1852.62  0.00 46.86     0.00  7493.19    319.82
> 2.73 58.34  20.44  95.76
> > dm-0              0.00     0.00  0.00  1.05     0.00     4.19      8.00
> 0.03 27.25  27.00   2.83
> > dm-1              0.00     0.00  0.00  0.00     0.00     0.00      0.00
> 0.00 0.00   0.00   0.00
> 
> USB Thumb drive
> > sda               0.00     0.00  0.00  0.00     0.00     0.00      0.00
> 0.00 0.00   0.00   0.00
> > sda1              0.00     0.00  0.00  0.00     0.00     0.00      0.00
> 0.00 0.00   0.00   0.00
> > dm-2              0.00     0.00  0.00 1898.43     0.00   7593.72     8.00
> 201.75  106.27   0.50  95.76
> > 
> 
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