On Wednesday 09 April 2008 08:18:20 am John Summerfield wrote:
> Dave Costakos wrote:
> > Hmm . . . so are you saying then that packages are being "scribbled"
> > during the install when the screen says "Formatting / . . ." and shows a
> > percentage complete?!

No.

> > Because that is the part of the install that this post was
> > meant to be about.

Despite it being in the Subject line, I missed that part. :)

> Jarod's comment makes some sense, the host is continually being bothered
>  with the need to allocate more space, but if that doesn't
> satisfactorily explain your observation, it's not _the_ answer.

Indeed, my own observations apparently differ. Formatting, while not exactly lightning fast (when is it ever with ext3?...), doesn't take egregiously long with sparse images, its the writing of packages to the sparse image, which is indeed when the bulk of the I/O is going on, and thus where most of the callbacks to the hypervisor, context switches in the processor(s), etc., takes place.

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Jarod Wilson
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