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Title: sluggish
Post by: Michael Day on January 23, 2002, 08:25:20 PM

I have used E-Smith off and on for a while.  The main thing that causes me to go back to RedHat is E-Smith's sluggishness.  I work for a software company and I try to load our product on E-Smith for testing, when I try it takes 1 1/2 to 2 hours to do a 650mb install (it is very massive software).  This is loading from a 52X cdrom on a 1ghz Thunderbird processor with 3/4 gig of ram accross a 100mip switch (not hub) to an E-Smith server with a 366mhz processor and 256mb of ram.  Anyone have any ideas why this happens???  I even tried loading 4.12 then upgrading to 5.0 with no luck.

Title: Re: sluggish
Post by: Mike on January 23, 2002, 10:30:51 PM

No ideas; I load it on my P2-350 with 128Mb on 10-15 minutes from a slowish CDRom. Methinks your hardware isn't being detected or configured properly?

Title: Re: sluggish
Post by: Robert Boerner on January 23, 2002, 10:43:42 PM

I can load it in about 8 minutes on a PIII 500 with 128 meg. Sounds like your hardware might be the problem.

Title: Re: sluggish
Post by: Luke Drumm on January 23, 2002, 11:10:47 PM

"Lies, damn lies and statistics...." - I'm not sure why I'm reminded of that but anyway...

My former e-smith abode was a Pentium 90 with 24Meg RAM, A 1Gb HDD and a 4x CD-ROM drive. Total install time: 30 mins.

Regards,
Luke

Title: Re: sluggish
Post by: robert on January 23, 2002, 11:13:50 PM

Aren't network installs always a bit sluggish?

Title: Re: sluggish
Post by: Michael Day on January 24, 2002, 04:08:51 AM

I don't think the first three understood what I was saying.  E-Smith loads in a reasonable length of time, it's the other software I load on it that takes so long.  I can load the same on a RedHat or Mandrake server in a third of the time so it's obviously something in the E-Smith setup.  Any ideas would be appreciated.

Title: Re: sluggish
Post by: Marko on January 24, 2002, 10:09:41 AM

Hi Michael,

I seems to me that the hardware is ok, perhaps is the network connectivity that is causing the delays when transporting large amounts of data. Perhaps "10/100/autosensing" problems with the connection to the switch?

regards,

Marko

Title: Re: sluggish
Post by: Michael Day on January 24, 2002, 05:56:55 PM

I think you are probably right.  I loaded the 5.1 last nite and it seems to alleviated part of the problem

Title: Re: sluggish
Post by: Lowell on February 01, 2002, 04:31:12 AM

Michael Day wrote:
>
> I think you are probably right.  I loaded the 5.1 last nite
> and it seems to alleviated part of the problem


I have run into a similar problem as is your description.  The fix was going to standardized NIC's - 3-com 905's.  Have stayed there and have not seen any similar sluggishnes since.  Recently built a e-smith box for a file intense designer.  I didn't hear from them for quite a while - thought maybe they were upset.  Just the opposite, it run so fast and so effective, there was no reason to call.  Gonna move them to 5.1.2 in a couple of weeks.