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Subject: [Sisuite-users] Autoinstall image d/l stops consistently in same spot
From: "Ryan Lucio" <rlucio () engineeredintelligence ! com>
Date: 2004-12-10 17:23:09
Message-ID: 200412101123464.SM01416 () Isengard
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Hey all,
I am running 3.2.3 w/flamethrower on a cluster of Dell workstations. They
only have 256 MB RAM each, and when I run the flamethrower autoinstall, the
install proceeds until the image is exactly 209MB into the download. At
this point the hard drive light comes on for about 10 seconds and then ..
nothing. The image d/l status is still on the screen, no error msgs, and
the computer is not locked (I can ctrl-c to busybox).
I originally thought the problem was not providing enough swap/tmpfs space
and I modified the boot files to give as much room as possible. Still no
dice. I went as far as modifying the /etc/init.d/functions script to force
the image download to go straight to the hard drive, which DOES work,
although I have to throttle the d/l speed down to 5mb.
I think the issue may be related to the fact there is only 256MB of ram.
However, I have read many entries where users have been applying images of
over 2GB successfully. I doubt they are all using servers that have 2+GB
of ram. What am I missing?
Thanks in advance,
---Ryan
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Hey all,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I am running 3.2.3 w/flamethrower on a cluster of Dell
workstations. They only have 256 MB RAM each, and when I run the
flamethrower autoinstall, the install proceeds until the image is exactly 209MB
into the download. At this point the hard drive light comes on for about
10 seconds and then .. nothing. The image d/l status is still on
the screen, no error msgs, and the computer is not locked (I can ctrl-c to
busybox).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I originally thought the problem was not providing enough
swap/tmpfs space and I modified the boot files to give as much room as
possible. Still no dice. I went as far as modifying the \
/etc/init.d/functions script to force the image download to go straight to the hard \
drive, which DOES work, although I have to throttle the d/l speed down to \
5mb.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I think the issue may be related to the fact there is only
256MB of ram. However, I have read many entries where users have been
applying images of over 2GB successfully. I doubt they are all
using servers that have 2+GB of ram. What am I missing? \
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Thanks in advance,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>---Ryan<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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