Bug 8430

Summary:	Too slow
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Component:	installer	Assignee:	Jay Turner <jturner>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	6.2	CC:	srevivo
Target Milestone:	---
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2000-02-04 19:46:37 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:

Description Tim Waugh 2000-01-12 23:30:19 UTC

Well, the installer is quite slow, isn't it?

(Admittedly, I tried it out here on a 486.  It's _really_ sluggish.  It was
twenty five minutes after starting installation that it even started
copying files.)

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2000-01-14 14:49:59 UTC

How much memory? A full install needs file lists from all packages to be
installed, an upgrade will need all installed packages too. AFAIK, an upgrade
needs ~32 Mb in order to avoid swapping.

Comment 2 Tim Waugh 2000-01-18 11:17:59 UTC

16Mb.

Comment 3 Tim Waugh 2000-01-22 10:35:59 UTC

Just had a closer inspection and actually it's got 32Mb.  At the final screen
(Congratulations..), flipping to VT2 and looking at /proc/meminfo revealed that
48Mb were in use (i.e. 17Mb of swap).  Erk.

(Obviously, this is the same with 6.2beta2)

Comment 4 Erik Troan 2000-02-03 16:27:59 UTC

Was RH 6.1 any better?

Comment 5 Tim Waugh 2000-02-04 13:31:59 UTC

Actually, no.

Comment 6 Jay Turner 2000-02-04 19:46:59 UTC

If 6.1 was no better than the 6.2 betas that we are working with currently, then
this is definitely not a bug.  Hopefully we will be able to speed up the
installation in future version of the installer.