TEST: fai & libeatmydata

2010-11-23 Thread Julien BLACHE
Hi, The length of the deployment process being a recurrent complaint around here, my colleague and I couldn't resist the idea of using libeatmydata during the installation with FAI to try and gain some speed. On our standard-issue workstation with our standard software package (complete GNOME + K

Re: TEST: fai & libeatmydata

2010-11-23 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 18:13:33 +0100, Julien BLACHE > said: > We went from 45 minutes down to somewhere around 22-25 minutes. Wow! > This was done by adding libeatmydata to LD_PRELOAD in the instsoft hook Great idea. Currently FAI has "only" the ramdisk on top of /var/lib/dpkg,

Re: TEST: fai & libeatmydata

2010-11-23 Thread Julien BLACHE
Thomas Lange wrote: Hi, > > This was done by adding libeatmydata to LD_PRELOAD in the instsoft hook > Great idea. Currently FAI has "only" the ramdisk on top of > /var/lib/dpkg, but I'm also trying to speed up things using a ramdisk > for more directories. The ramdisk doesn't help here, act

Re: TEST: fai & libeatmydata

2010-11-24 Thread Julien BLACHE
Thomas Lange wrote: Hi, > Could you please also post your hooks. I would like to try them in my > current setup. Here they are. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - Public key available on - KeyID: F5D6 5169 GPG Fingerprint : 935A 79F1 C8B3 3

Re: TEST: fai & libeatmydata

2010-11-24 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, very nice findings! It's probably easier to use eatmydata like this: eatmydata apt-get foo Or maybe its just me, who doesnt like to modify LD_PRELOAD. cheers, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: TEST: fai & libeatmydata

2010-11-24 Thread Juergen Kahnert
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 12:10:43PM +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote: > Here they are. > > [...] > LD_PRELOAD=${LD_PRELOAD:+$LD_PRELOAD:}/usr/lib/libeatmydata/libeatmydata.so > [...] Nice one, just one point. LD_PRELOAD is a space separated list, not colon separated (see 'man ld.so | grep -A 1 LD_PRELO

Re: TEST: fai & libeatmydata

2010-11-24 Thread Julien BLACHE
Juergen Kahnert wrote: Hi, > Nice one, just one point. LD_PRELOAD is a space separated list, not > colon separated (see 'man ld.so | grep -A 1 LD_PRELOAD'). Should be: Yeah, good catch :) JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - Public key available on