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Re: mkserv remote on Ultra 10
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Thu Mar 6 20:19:26 2003
Message-Id: <200303070119.UAA25582@the-other-woman.mit.edu>
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Heather Anne <aurora@MIT.EDU>
cc: release-team@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "05 Mar 2003 15:55:57 EST."
<1046897757.620.2.camel@indiana.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 20:19:13 -0500
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> So, I had need to redo my remote access customizations on indiana, my
> ultra 10. Mkserv remote took about half an hour to finish the stage at
> the end where it says it is updating the sync tree (or something along
> those lines. Bill suggested I ask why that happens here as most users
> would not have been as patient as I was in waiting for it to finish.
Hi,
I'm guessing the part that was really slow was "updating root symlinks
before synctree". There are several reasons this is so slow. In no
particular order:
* That's a 4 1/2 year old machine. Send mail to ac-proposals
to ask about getting it upgraded.
* With the "new" partitioning scheme there is a lot more stuff
that is brought local by the release that mkserv has to look
at. this takes time.
* mkserv interacts poorly with certain aspects of having /var
on the same partition as / Unfortunately, I haven't had the
time or energy to come up with a sane fix for this problem.
-- Jonathon
