Slow disk I/O - was Re: Seeking Help

Ric Moore wayward4now at gmail.com
Wed Jan 23 19:53:42 UTC 2013


On 01/23/2013 08:27 AM, geoff at thebakershome.net wrote:
> I was so excited this morning to find so many responses after I sent the
> pastebin link. My hopefullness faded quickly when I read the emails and
> found that people are having a pissing match over how many files are
> included on the install DVDs.
>
> Who cares. The downloads and my internet connection are not the cause of
> the 6 hour install time, or the 20 minute apt-get update. The problem is
> I/O to the hard drives through the motherboard. It appears that something
> is not configured correctly in the Bios or that the kernel does not detect
> a setting correctly and the result is very slow performing drives. Take a
> look at the pastebin and note the result of "time apt-get update". 22
> seconds to download the data files, 19 minutes to process them. There is
> no internet connection issue.
>
> Please let the argument over Install DVDs die. The goal of sending the
> e-mail to seek help was to find someone with the same motherboard,
> determine if I have setup the BIOS incorrectly, and to learn something.
> Not to argue over the amount of data on the install DVD.

Then you could have sought the assistance from the Mfg of the 
motherboard. Here you're likely to see the shotgun approach to your 
problem, since none of us are clairvoyant enough to remote view the 
innards of your system. You asked, and we, from our limited knowledge, 
offered.

Notice that if your problem is due to an incorrectly setup router, then 
we were correct in taking a shotgun approach to your problem, as what 
you originally asked for might not have been the problem at all. It's 
not like that hasn't happened before. So, we throw the kitchen sink at 
it. That is what you get for free.

So yeah, if your problem is that router, then a ~full~ DVD would have 
installed in no time and you would have been looking elsewhere for your 
problem. Which is why I recommend it. It's happened to me, in like 
manner, as well. :) Ric



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..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
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