yeah, i'm in it at the moment ... I had to to send the message via gmail ...
the old system takes 2 minutes to boot, the new one about 10-12 mins. Jon On 25 August 2011 10:45, Alasdair Lumsden <alasdai...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Jonathan, > > Sorry for asking the obvious, but is all fine if you boot back up in an older > boot environment? > > (I'd like to rule out coincidental hardware issues since harddrives are > notoriously sucky) > > Cheers, > > Alasdair > > > > On 25 Aug 2011, at 10:25, Jonathan Adams wrote: > >> Last night I removed the BE's after kernel a4e1558c05 and tried to do an >> update. >> >> after updating to the latest kernel I rebooted the machine and left >> for the evening to see if it would boot after a very long time. >> >> This morning I was pleasantly surprised to find a log on screen, and >> was able to log on to the computer, but it appeared to be sluggish. >> >> Knowing that it did boot I decided to boot the latest kernel with the >> verbose option ... and it all booted, slowly, but with no noticeable >> differences to a normal boot (with the exception of "network/location >> Method or service timed out" after about 5 minutes. >> >> after booting it appeared to be sluggish again, so i ran an "iostat >> -zxc 5" and noticed that my hard disk was running with 100% blocking >> most of the time, with very low disk usage. >> >> I started some applications (gedit, firefox, thunderbird ...) firefox >> and thunderbird were essentially unusable, gedit was just about able >> to open and save files. >> >> I would really like to be able to upgrade and look at the kvm code, >> and am happy to give any information/logs that are needed. >> >> Jon >> >> _______________________________________________ >> oi-dev mailing list >> oi-dev@openindiana.org >> http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev > > > _______________________________________________ > oi-dev mailing list > oi-dev@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev > _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list oi-dev@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev