Posts made by the_duke

@Wayne-Workman Ok, after trying several download tasks, I’m still getting nowhere. What had been taking 10 minutes at the most a month ago is now taking over an hour. Something has got to give…do I just need to try and reinstall fog or what’s the deal?

@Wayne-Workman oh ok

@Wayne-Workman Ok, I played around with a couple of other kernels and am now getting better download results so far with Kernel - 4.1.0 TomElliott. By better I mean it is so far doing about 24 minutes instead of the 1 hour as before. I’m trying different kernels right now to see if I can get it any better. I’m just guessing at this point.

@Wayne-Workman No, I mean that the upload finished in about 11 minutes at an average of 2.8 GB/min. The download started off good for a minute or so and is now at 570 MB/min, has been running for over 18 minutes and still shows over 33 minutes left to go; at 35% on progress bar

@the_duke Ok, well the good news is that the upload time was cut in half and the speed went from about 1.6 GB/min to 2.8 GB/min. The bad news is that it starts off great for a minute or so and now it is at 16% and doing 700 MB/min and continuing to drop. I just don’t see why it would all of a sudden in the last month or so. The only thing that I have had to change is we had a laptop that needed the ipxe.kpxe boot file to run and I had tried to use a different kernel before I changed the boot file, and I’ve changed it all back.

@Wayne-Workman ok

@Wayne-Workman I will try this…I do have one issue with that sequence though, I run deepfreeze on my windows systems and it needs a reboot in order for it to work properly. If I don’t do that part right, I get an error when it is setting up windows. I’ll try it though to see what it does.

@Wayne-Workman correct

@Wayne-Workman no, different computers, different images.

@Wayne-Workman no…I first reimaged one of my custom built computers with its own image and it ran about 500 MB/min. I then tried one of our refurbished units with its own image, using the same network port and had an average download speeds of 4 GB/min.

Hope that clarifies it a lot

@Wayne-Workman A different computer with an image for that particular model. I don’t have a master image, just an image for all the different computers that I have.

@Wayne-Workman @Tom-Elliott Ok, I’ve got 2 different custom built computers with a separate image for each model. Both of those computers are having the same slow speeds. On every other one I’ve tried so far, I’m getting between 4-5 GB/min download speed. I’ve even tried using the same port for each computer and same results. Is there something in the kernel or possibly the boot file that could be doing this? All of my switches in my system are brocade icx6430s. These are enterprise grade switches so if something was going bad on one, I’d know. I know it’s not a coincidence that everywhere I have one of these 2 custom built computers its slower on the download side.

@Wayne-Workman I can try that, but it doesn’t make sense to me as to why on a different computer with a different image being downloaded to it that it will be a lot faster. In my mind it would seem that if it was my network or a hardware issue on the fog server, it would be this slow with all of my images, not just this one.

@Tom-Elliott Ok, I tried it once and it was still downloading at about 457 MB/min. I then tried to re-upload an image for it and then push it out. I was uploading at about 1.65 GB/min. While it is a little better this time around, I’m still only downloading at about 1.4 GB/min. I had a couple of other computers with a different image download at over 5 GB/min since I made this change. These computers that are going slower are custom built computers that were built 2.5 years ago and have much better hardware than what is on the rest of my systems as they are either refurbished units or 5yr old laptops.

@Tom-Elliott Ok, I just ran this and now trying to see how it goes.

@Tom-Elliott Sorry, should’ve said so before, I’m running 1.2.0…I did try trunk for a brief moment to test something, but came back to this. However I never uploaded any of the images while I was in trunk. It could be possible that while I was on trunk that it changed the settings by itself. I have a good idea that it will, but want to confirm, will running it at 5 or 6 make my download speeds slower? This would not be something that we would want, after all, we do deploy more than we upload and time is of the essence when in a classroom full of kids.

My colleges and I have noticed over the last couple of months that 2 of our images seem to upload at a faster speed than the others do and then in turn, deploy at a slower rate than the others. My FOG_PIGZ_COMP set at 9 and has always been set at this since I’ve had it. Ordinarily, my upload speeds are under 1GB/min, about 800 MB/min, and download speeds at around 3-4.5 GB/min. Right now, I have a computer uploading a 1.6-1.7 GB/min and will download at about 500-800 MB/min. What is causing these 2 images to be a different speeds than the many others that I have done. These 2 are some of the first ones that I created on my fog server.

I went and did a system diagnostic in my bios after you said this and it was my memory. I removed it from the slot that it was in and placed it into another slot on the MB and everything seems good to go now. Thanks for the tip.

I know that I’ve seen a couple topics through google search about kernel panic, but nothing that really addressed or helped my scenario. I have imaged a lab of 33 computers all the same and same image. I have one that is giving me issues. It gets part of the way done and comes up with a bunch of code and t hen an end trace code. Under that I get kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt Kernel offset: disabled. I have tried several times to image. One time it did finish, but then had a corrupt boot record. I then tried to do a fast wipe to try and fix that and then reimaged and now back to the kernel panic errors. Any ideas?

@Tom-Elliott Ok, well after upgrading to svn 2096, I am still unable to deploy a vista image to this laptop. I reuploaded the image just to make sure and still no go