me@vbox-ubuntu-1210-i386:~$ uname -a
Linux vbox-ubuntu-1210-i386 3.9.0-030900rc4-generic #201303232035 SMP Sun Mar 24 00:44:55 UTC 2013 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux
me@vbox-ubuntu-1210-i386:~$ time sudo apt-get update
16GByte
real 17m36.608s
user 0m15.096s
sys 0m11.608s
12GByte
real 0m10.705s
user 0m1.748s
sys 0m0.428s
I have ran strace as 'sudo strace apt-get update' and it shows that the slow-down is really due to abdominal bad kernel I/O performance. Alsmost all the time is actually spend while blocking on the read() system call (which is not much of a surprise I guess if we're already looking at kernel versions.. ) Just wanted to do the exercise anyway..
What's the next step? Going backwards indeed to find out when it was introduced?
Is the VirtualBox VM settings "Extended features: Enable PAE/ NX" relevant?
I'm more of an embedded dev so not too familiar with x86 hw
mmm no improvement :-(
me@vbox- ubuntu- 1210-i386: ~$ uname -a 1210-i386 3.9.0-030900rc4 -generic #201303232035 SMP Sun Mar 24 00:44:55 UTC 2013 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux ubuntu- 1210-i386: ~$ time sudo apt-get update
Linux vbox-ubuntu-
me@vbox-
16GByte
real 17m36.608s
user 0m15.096s
sys 0m11.608s
12GByte
real 0m10.705s
user 0m1.748s
sys 0m0.428s
I have ran strace as 'sudo strace apt-get update' and it shows that the slow-down is really due to abdominal bad kernel I/O performance. Alsmost all the time is actually spend while blocking on the read() system call (which is not much of a surprise I guess if we're already looking at kernel versions.. ) Just wanted to do the exercise anyway..
What's the next step? Going backwards indeed to find out when it was introduced?
Is the VirtualBox VM settings "Extended features: Enable PAE/ NX" relevant?
I'm more of an embedded dev so not too familiar with x86 hw