On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 00:55 -0700, Rik Herrin wrote: > Hi, > I'm experiencing a strange RHEL v4 specific issue. > For some reason, Kickstart is taking a very long time > to start installing packages. I'm installing from an > nfs server and the ks file is located on the nfs > server. Anaconda quickly gets a DHCP request and goes > through everything at a reasonable rate until it > reaches the screen where it is about to install > software (after it has completed the formatting). It > then "hangs" for about 5-10 minutes before continuing. > Even when installing software, I feel that it is > quite slow. I had the exact same setup on RHEL v3 and > it was about twice as fast. Furthermore, on RHEL v3, > there was no delay in any part of the installation. I > checked that traffic on the network and there was > basically no traffic except for the installation (I > had only a single machine installing). After taking > some time to install the packages, the installation is > successful. However, I was wondering why it takes so > long to start installing the packages. Any ideas? > Thanks for your time. > > PS. I attached the kickstart file if anyone's interested. Another thing to consider besides the dependency calculation is the NFS mount options. If you go to Alt-F2 and cat /proc/mounts, is your NFS mount rsize=32768,wsize=32768,udp? If so, this could be your problem. I recently submitted a patch to the Anaconda developers for RHEL 4 U2_beta that allows you to pass "nfsmountopts=rsize=16384,wsize=16384,tcp" or any other NFS mount options to loader. This helps installations where UDP and large (32K) rsize/wsize are a bad idea. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=168384 /Brian/ -- Brian Long | | | IT Data Center Systems | .|||. .|||. Cisco Linux Developer | ..:|||||||:...:|||||||:.. Phone: (919) 392-7363 | C i s c o S y s t e m s
