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    • sudburrS
      sudburr @Junkhacker
      last edited by

      @Junkhacker The majority of my images are ~55 GiB compressed, 85-115 GiB deployed. And yah, Autodesk and Adobe products suck it up real good.

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      • JunkhackerJ
        Junkhacker Developer @A Former User
        last edited by Junkhacker

        @loosus456 the image i was testing with here was 33.87 GB “on client”

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        • V
          VincentJ Moderator
          last edited by

          So… Deploy with old fog, capture with new fog on a different image set to zstd 11

          I noticed on the upload, the screen still says:
          Starting to clone device (/dev/sda2) to image (/tmp/pigz1)

          The image is Multiple Partition Single Disk (non re-sizeable)

          On my old image it has two files… but the new one has three…

          I am pulling the image off the NAS now to unpack it and test it, but thought i would pitch in on what i’ve seen so far.

          svn revision 6066

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          • JunkhackerJ
            Junkhacker Developer @VincentJ
            last edited by

            @VincentJ “/tmp/pigz1” is just the name of the fifo that the data is being piped into to be sent to compression. maybe we should rename it for purely aesthetic reasons, but that’s working as it should. was the previous image also Multiple Partition Single Disk (non re-sizeable)?

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              VincentJ Moderator @Junkhacker
              last edited by

              @Junkhacker Yes it was. All of my images are.

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              • JJ FullmerJ
                JJ Fullmer Testers
                last edited by

                So I just updated to RC 15 and made a new image at zstd level 9. I was using gzip level 5 before. The image is still currently downloading, estimating the full time to be about 12 minutes. With gzip the download was taking around 3 minutes. This is a 6th gen i5 client and the fogserver is on a vm with 8 vcpus (intel xeon something something) and 16 GB ram. There is also a storage node on a older server with a little less power, but still imaged around 2-3 minutes.
                The size of the image uncompressed is ~15 GB and it is 7.5 GB compressed with zstd. My old image was ~18 GB and with gzip level 5 it compressed to 6.7 GB.

                So what did I do wrong? Is the difference between 9 and 11 really that substantial? Should I re-upload that image? Also split vs non split? I saw the post on the topic of it being better for multiple images, but are there any other considerations in regard to speed?

                Have you tried the FogApi powershell module? It's pretty cool IMHO
                https://github.com/darksidemilk/FogApi
                https://fogapi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
                https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/FogApi
                https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/12026/powershell-api-module

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                • Tom ElliottT
                  Tom Elliott @JJ Fullmer
                  last edited by

                  @JJ-Fullmer ZSTD “mid” range is 11, compared to PIGZ “mid” range being 5-6.

                  I set my images to 19 now and it’s pretty awesome.

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                  Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

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                  • JJ FullmerJ
                    JJ Fullmer Testers @Tom Elliott
                    last edited by

                    @Tom-Elliott But at 19 are you sacrificing speed substantially?

                    Have you tried the FogApi powershell module? It's pretty cool IMHO
                    https://github.com/darksidemilk/FogApi
                    https://fogapi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
                    https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/FogApi
                    https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/12026/powershell-api-module

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                    • Tom ElliottT
                      Tom Elliott @JJ Fullmer
                      last edited by

                      @JJ-Fullmer Not at all.

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                      Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

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                      • JJ FullmerJ
                        JJ Fullmer Testers @Tom Elliott
                        last edited by

                        @Tom-Elliott I will give it a try then

                        Have you tried the FogApi powershell module? It's pretty cool IMHO
                        https://github.com/darksidemilk/FogApi
                        https://fogapi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
                        https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/FogApi
                        https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/12026/powershell-api-module

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                        • JJ FullmerJ
                          JJ Fullmer Testers @Tom Elliott
                          last edited by

                          @Tom-Elliott What about split vs not so split?

                          Have you tried the FogApi powershell module? It's pretty cool IMHO
                          https://github.com/darksidemilk/FogApi
                          https://fogapi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
                          https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/FogApi
                          https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/12026/powershell-api-module

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                          • Tom ElliottT
                            Tom Elliott @JJ Fullmer
                            last edited by

                            @JJ-Fullmer Either or, shouldn’t matter in terms of performance.

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                            Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

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                            • JunkhackerJ
                              Junkhacker Developer @Tom Elliott
                              last edited by

                              @Tom-Elliott i’m going to disagree with tom on the speed sacrifice with -19 setting. deploy speed, you won’t sacrifice much, and maybe even gain, but on capture it’s going to take quite a while longer. for me, i use -11.

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                              • JJ FullmerJ
                                JJ Fullmer Testers @Junkhacker
                                last edited by

                                @Junkhacker Well deploy is where speed is more important to me.
                                I gave 19 a go with the split and it actually had some weird error on the first deploy, I was in a meeting in my office so I didn’t really get to see the whole thing, but then it auto-retried the task and worked proper the second time. 2 minutes 18 seconds. The image size on the server seems to still be bigger than pigz was with 7.1 GB for a 15 GB image instead of 6.7 G for the old 18 GB image. But, don’t need to be too picky about it.

                                @Tom-Elliott Two minor issues I noticed. The first time (the slow deploy) I queued the image after doing a full host inventory via the pxe boot on the host. I had not specified any snapins and it randomly added like 10 of them. The second time I queued it from the gui and deleted the snapins and the problem didn’t repeat itself. However in both instances the drive didn’t resize itself.

                                Have you tried the FogApi powershell module? It's pretty cool IMHO
                                https://github.com/darksidemilk/FogApi
                                https://fogapi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
                                https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/FogApi
                                https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/12026/powershell-api-module

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                                • Tom ElliottT
                                  Tom Elliott @JJ Fullmer
                                  last edited by

                                  @JJ-Fullmer What version of fog are you running?

                                  Please help us build the FOG community with everyone involved. It's not just about coding - way more we need people to test things, update documentation and most importantly work on uniting the community of people enjoying and working on FOG! Get in contact with me (chat bubble in the top right corner) if you want to join in.

                                  Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

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                                  • Tom ElliottT
                                    Tom Elliott
                                    last edited by

                                    @jj-fullmer and I had a remote session and the cause of the resize issue as described was found.

                                    The issue he was seeing was the resize allowed a partition to be sized larger than the boundary of the disk. This only occurred, as far as I could tell, in the case of 4k disks again, but I’ve added code to correct for this in ANY case of the chunk size passed in.

                                    Just thought I’d give an update to the “resize” issue as it was described and I’ve released RC-16 in an attempt to ensure this is corrected for.

                                    Please help us build the FOG community with everyone involved. It's not just about coding - way more we need people to test things, update documentation and most importantly work on uniting the community of people enjoying and working on FOG! Get in contact with me (chat bubble in the top right corner) if you want to join in.

                                    Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

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                                    • JJ FullmerJ
                                      JJ Fullmer Testers
                                      last edited by

                                      Figured I should add, my speed issue was related to running PHPIPAM (a ip management tool) on my storage node server. It was slowing my image deploys down, not the zstd. It’s crazy fast at compression level 19 now.

                                      Have you tried the FogApi powershell module? It's pretty cool IMHO
                                      https://github.com/darksidemilk/FogApi
                                      https://fogapi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
                                      https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/FogApi
                                      https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/12026/powershell-api-module

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                                      • JJ FullmerJ
                                        JJ Fullmer Testers @JJ Fullmer
                                        last edited by

                                        @JJ-Fullmer Well it wasn’t actually phpipam that was slowing it down.
                                        I had some ssl logs running for a website running on that server. It was tracking access logs for every access of the ssl cert and site. Which was also adding up to over 400 GB of logs. I changed the apache configuration of the site to log much less. That solved the problem. So again, nothing wrong with zstd. Just wanted to have the right answer in case someone else happens to see a constant 5-8 Mbps transmit and receive on a storage node.

                                        Have you tried the FogApi powershell module? It's pretty cool IMHO
                                        https://github.com/darksidemilk/FogApi
                                        https://fogapi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
                                        https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/FogApi
                                        https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/12026/powershell-api-module

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