Another upload/download speed issue
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@the_duke Well, since your so willing and keen on rebuilding your server - I say hold off and upgrade to FOG Trunk and see how that goes, first.
https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Upgrade_to_trunk
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@Wayne-Workman well ok, I’ll try that in the morning
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@the_duke The FULL new inits and newer kernels might make all the difference.
And even if there’s no discernible difference with FOG Trunk, the developers will likely want to take a look and see what’s going on - since you’ll be on the latest developmental version and they need opportunities to test on new/unique environments.
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@Wayne-Workman ok, I upgraded to trunk and I’m on version 6533. I uploaded my image just to make sure the image was updated with latest settings. The image uploaded in 9 minutes at a rate of 3 GB/min which is very fast. Now after finishing a download to another computer of the same model, it had an average rate of 729.39 MB/min. I had set my compression rate for this image at 7.
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@Wayne-Workman Ok, well I believe that I have found out the problem. These custom built units currently have 64 GB SSD on them. They were getting filled up and what we were trying to do was reimage them and to free up some space. What we probably should have done is at least a normal wipe of the drive and then reimaged the machine. What I tried was taking the HDD out of one of the refurbished units that was going normal speeds and hook it into one of the custom built units and it imaged in 5 minutes. So I am in the process now of doing a normal wipe of a machine and then going to reimage it then and see how it goes. I am expecting it to go much more normal.
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@the_duke We’ll see, I guess. Do report your findings.
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@Wayne-Workman Will do.
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@Wayne-Workman How long should the normal wipe task take? It has been going for an hour and a half now and the screen shows writing zeros to /dev/sda and then a blinking cursor right below it. When I look in the task management in fog web interface, it just says the task is queued.
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@the_duke Nevermind, it just completed…didn’t remember it normally taking that long to do.
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@Wayne-Workman Ok, with the normal wipe finally completed, the deployment went through with speeds of an average of 5.57 GB/min which is what it should be and only took just over 5 minutes. I wouldn’t have thought the need to wipe it to start with. I figured that we were technically doing that when we were deploying out the image to it, but for some reason with the drive being that full to start with, the drive wasn’t write the image to the disk very fast I guess.
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@the_duke said:
@Wayne-Workman Ok, with the normal wipe finally completed, the deployment went through with speeds of an average of 5.57 GB/min which is what it should be and only took just over 5 minutes. I wouldn’t have thought the need to wipe it to start with. I figured that we were technically doing that when we were deploying out the image to it, but for some reason with the drive being that full to start with, the drive wasn’t write the image to the disk very fast I guess.
That makes absolutely no sense to me… but OK lol.
Care to share the exact model of the SSD ?
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@Wayne-Workman Yeah I know, me either…its a SanDisk 64 GB…SDSSDP-064G. I’m assuming it’s one of their first models. We bought them close to 3 years ago.
