Slowness after upgrade to 1.5.7.102 (dev branch)

[rogalskij]

@Tom-Elliott I tried some newer kernels like 5.3.3 as well as what shipped with 1.5.7 (kernel version 4.19.48). I tried using the original version of init.xz but it claimed my memory was too low or something of that nature so I switched it back. The speed didn’t seem to change at all on any of the different kernels, almost like the speed wasn’t related to those kernels. Also as another piece of information I am using UEFI pxe booting with ipxe.efi as the boot file.

I just updated to 1.5.7.115 but no change at all. Just for full disclosure.

[Sebastian Roth]

@rogalskij said in Slowness after upgrade to 1.5.7.102 (dev branch):

I tried using the original version of init.xz but it claimed my memory was too low or something of that nature

Can you try using init.xz and bzImage from https://fogproject.org/binaries1.5.7.zip as well as from https://fogproject.org/binaries1.5.3.zip - always use both init.xz/bzImage from the same ZIP archive to test. See if any of these will make speed things up again. Though you have to re-capture the image before you can deploy because those use an older version of partclone that is not able to deploy newer style images.

As well you might take a picture of the actual memory error on screen of you still get this. We might figure out what this is about.

[rogalskij]

@Sebastian-Roth Testing with newer init with partclone 0.3.13 and kernel 4.19.101 seems to fix my slowness in deployment of images. I am seeing speeds of 9GB or more in my testing now. I am guessing it is the partclone that is causing the slowness in some environments. Will continue to test and utilize 0.3.13 partclone to verify theory.

[Sebastian Roth]

@rogalskij Seems like I was actually wrong about you having a different issue than discussed in the other topic. Nevertheless I think it was good to have two topics to not mix up the information on who had tested what.

Thanks for your effort. I will update the official binaries tomorrow.

[rogalskij]

@Sebastian-Roth Thank you for all you and everyone does. I agree with you this was a good choice to make a second topic out of. This is working well now and I greatly appreciate all the assistance!