>
> Sorry. I agree.
>
>>> where are you creating this 50G partitiong? in the installer, or in
>>> the installed operating system? what command did you use?
>
> In the installer.
>
>>> how long did it actually take? "a really long time" could be 5
>>> seconds if you're expectations are too high.
>
> More than 2 minutes, for sure!. Perhaps, more.
>
>>> that does seem excessive. can you watch the interrupt rates in the
>>> top right of "systat vm 1" and let me know what numbers you're
>>> seeing?
>
> I did run the same command again. Only this time I used
>
> tar xzf ports.tar.gz
>
> Look at the times:
>
> # date;tar xzf ports.tar.gz;date
> Wed Feb 14 10:59:34 BRT 2007
> Wed Feb 14 11:11:04 BRT 2007
>
> The total number of interrupts ranged from 270 to 850, most of it
> being mpi0 (170 out of 271 and 747 out of 850). It always showed
> 100 for clock. If you feel it is important, I can send you the
> print screen of the moment these values were shown (off the list
> if you prefer).
>
> Thanks a lot in advance.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jose
>
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