Re: Very time consuming install process for the Debian 10 / buster xfce amd64 cd in virtualbox running on mageia 7 x86-64
Hi!
On Fri, 28 Jun 2019 10:47:24 +0000
Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> shlomif@shlomifish.org wrote:
> >Geert Stappers <stappers@stappers.nl> wrote:
> >
> >> What I would like to see,
> >> is more information how the measurement was done.
> >>
> >> e.g.
> >> * How busy was the host
> >
> >It was running kde plasma 5 in startx, but otherwise had a lot of free RAM
> >and non-busy cores/CPUs. The system became a little unresponsive at times
> >during the install.
> >
> >> * Which apt / yum mirrors where used
> >
> >None - they were a completely non-networked installs - local .iso only.
>
> Wow. That's really odd. Was there any particular piece that noticeably
> took time?
>
The "installing the base system" and installing the other packages.
> I don't use Virtualbox myself, but I'm regularly using kvm to do test
> installations and it's really quick. Are you using exactly the same
> settings for Virtualbox as for the other distros you mentioned?
Yes. The defaults except for 20 GB disk, and vboxvga as display. I've now
tested a fresh x64 xfce https://manjaro.org/ install and it finished in less
than 20 minutes.
>
> Pondering if there's a performance problem there with disk or network
> or CPU emulation maybe - difficult to tell. :-/
>
ok.
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