Any news about that?
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 11:10:49AM +0800, Steven Shiau wrote:
> Lukas,
> Thanks. Thomas Tsai will revise this and try to use them.
> In the future, we will have more options in partclone to disable
> some jobs, e.g. "-q, --quiet" to skip all the rate messages update.
> Thanks.
>
> Steven.
>
> Lukas Grässlin wrote:
> >On 14.04.2010 23:16, Steven Shiau wrote:
> >>Lukas Grässlin wrote:
> >>>On 14.04.2010 16:15, Steven Shiau wrote:
> >>>>Lukas Grässlin wrote:
> >>>>>>There is an option "-f" of partclone which you might be interested to
> >>>>>>give it try.
> >>>>>>You can tune it to see if any difference.
> >>>>>As I understood the code, -f only affects the time the gui itself would
> >>>>>be refreshed, but the update_pui method which also runs calculate_speed
> >>>>>anyway is run.
> >>>>>
> >>>>Thanks. I will check with Thomas,
> >>>No problem.
> >>>
> >>>You can see it e.g. here in restore.c :
> >>>
> >>> /// start restore image file to partition
> >>> for( block_id = 0; block_id < image_hdr.totalblock; block_id++ ){
> >>> /* doing things, copying the blocks */
> >>> update_pui(&prog, copied, done);
> >>> } // end of for
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>I did a patch for myself within I told it just call update_pui once for
> >>>5000 blocks. Don't know if its a good idea, but it worked ;)
> >>Good, and the performance is?
> >>Could you please also send us the patch file?
> >>Thanks.
> >
> >I got about 20-39 MB/s.
> >Here is the patch. There are some other changes within:
> >
> >* I completeley disabled the update_pui on the server side, because
> >clonezilla anyway doesn't show the output there.
> >
> >* I changed the display of the speed from */min to */s beaucse I thoght
> >it's better readable for the most people.
> >
> >* I implemented that crc32-checks can be disabled. Not an good idea, but
> >I wanted it for testing and its disabled by default.
> >
> >Sorry, I had no time to rip off these other changes but it should be ok
> >anyway I hope.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Lukas
> >
> >>Steven.
> >>>>>If I've time I'll try the older clonezilla live, too.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>BTW, maybe you can also give Clonezilla live 1.2.2-14 a try? It's
> >>>>>>partclone is older, and we might have a regression somewhere...
> >>>>>>Please let us know the results.
> >>>>>>Thanks.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>Regards,
> >>>>>>Steven.
> >>>>>>>On 14.04.2010 10:33, Steven Shiau wrote:
> >>>>>>>>Yes, Thomas Tsai is working on the improvement of partclone.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>Lukas,
> >>>>>>>>Please send us gprof results you have.
> >>>>>>>>Thanks.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>Steven.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>On 2010/4/14 下午 02:43, Lukas Grässlin wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>Regarding the perfmance of partclone: Look at the "on-the-fly
> >>>>>>>>>performance" Thread in this mailing list.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>Partclone does some odd things which slow down the speed. You can
> >>>>>>>>>improve this by saying not to use the gui. (I think this is in the
> >>>>>>>>>expert options). But it stills does stupid things, like
> >>>>>>>>>calculating the
> >>>>>>>>>speed too often which resultes in high cpu load.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>Regards,
> >>>>>>>>>Lukas
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>On 14.04.2010 06:39, Jorge Fábregas wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>Hello Steven,
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>I've been using Clonezilla happily for more than 2 years and I
> >>>>>>>>>>always used the
> >>>>>>>>>>custom options and specifically partimage as the cloning tool.
> >>>>>>>>>>Since partimage
> >>>>>>>>>>seems to be a dead project (and no support for ext4) and
> >>>>>>>>>>considering that
> >>>>>>>>>>Clonezilla uses partclone as the default option I decided to use
> >>>>>>>>>>this.
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>My observation was that partclone takes some more time. When it
> >>>>>>>>>>started
> >>>>>>>>>>saving the partition, I wasn't sure what it was doing. There was
> >>>>>>>>>>some
> >>>>>>>>>>progress indicator (percentage) (Generating bitmap..) and I after
> >>>>>>>>>>that it
> >>>>>>>>>>started again another progress indicator (I guess the actual
> >>>>>>>>>>creation of the
> >>>>>>>>>>image). I'm a bit confused about these 2 steps as soon as
> >>>>>>>>>>partclone starts.
> >>>>>>>>>>Any tip will be appreciated. (just curious).
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>Thanks for Clonezillla.
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>Best regards,
> >>>>>>>>>>Jorge
> >>>>>>>>>>
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