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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size=2>Bill Leeper is probably
correct. The Ozc Rally 2 drive ($23 for 8 GB) is very fast, per Ocz 32
MB/s read and half that for write. I was taken by SanDisk's
claim that Cruzer Micro ($30 for 9 GB) is "ReadyBoost" enhanced.
My bad! Now I see SanDisk leaves the R/W rates blank in their product
comparison chart <A
href="http://u3.sandisk.com/CompareU3_drives.html">http://u3.sandisk.com/CompareU3_drives.html</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----
<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=protagonist@charter.net href="mailto:protagonist@charter.net">Bill
Leeper</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=testing@lists.pcbsd.org
href="mailto:testing@lists.pcbsd.org">PC-BSD Testing list</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Monday, September 08, 2008 9:27 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [PC-BSD Testing] More on: Beta 1 balky using 8GB
Thumb,contention issue?</DIV></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>I can confirm your observations on the thumb drive installations.
But <BR>I would lay it more to the poor read/write speed of a standard
flash <BR>drive. I intend to pick up a high speed flash drive in a month
or two <BR>and try it with that. I would suspect that with a 16 GB high
speed <BR>flash drive it should do much better.<BR><BR><BR>On Sep 8, 2008,
at 4:55 PM, Peter Brewster wrote:<BR><BR>> Some investigation
-<BR>><BR>> 1) Confirmed that Xubuntu on a thumb boots and runs
well. What I <BR>> thought was a minor balk is Xubuntu giving to
much time to grunt <BR>> work and not enough priority to human
interface.<BR>><BR>> 2) Confirmed that beta-1 takes a long time to
boot from a thumb <BR>> drive and then runs in a very balky
manor. Operations are <BR>> eventually correct but system is not
usable.<BR>><BR>> 3) Installed a 7200 rpm disk. Beta-1 install
took about 20 minutes <BR>> vs. three hours to SanDisk thumb.
Operation was very nice from the <BR>> first start. Ksysguard
showed similar cpu and memory usage but <BR>> about 10 fewer processes
using disk vs. thumb (137 vs. 147.)<BR>><BR>> Bottom line: I'll give
up on the thumb drive for PCBSD . . at least <BR>> for
now.<BR>><BR>> ----- Original Message -----<BR>> From: Peter
Brewster<BR>> To: <A
href="mailto:Testing@lists.pcbsd.org">Testing@lists.pcbsd.org</A><BR>> Sent:
Sunday, September 07, 2008 6:26 PM<BR>> Subject: Beta 1 balky using 8GB
Thumb, contention issue?<BR>><BR>> System is 2.8 MHz Celeron with .75 GB
RAM, no hard drive, USB 2.0.<BR>><BR>> 1) System had been in use
with Xububtu on an 8 GB Ocz thumb. Very <BR>> nice except an
occasional one to two second "balk" when launching a <BR>> new
application or scrolling in Firefox.<BR>><BR>> 2) Removed Ocz and
plugged in a new SanDisk thumb, fresh from <BR>> package. Tried
to install from net. DHCP was OK and target FTP was <BR>>
correct. File system went in OK. Looks like install died on
first <BR>> file needed. Gave that up.<BR>><BR>> 3)
Burned a three-CD beta-1 set. Installed with Firefox, Office
<BR>> and Development selected on third CD. Install took about
three <BR>> hours but went OK. However from the first reboot some
operations <BR>> took several minutes, either to launch or to so
something simple <BR>> such as pull down a menu. But the actions
generally seemed correct <BR>> if I waited long enough. Now and
then a launch would just get lost <BR>> - including that doggone
bouncing thing. The thumb drive had <BR>> about 900
MB free. System was basically unusable.<BR>><BR>> 4) Removed
the SanDisk thumb and WinXP formatted it. (This left <BR>> the U3
partition of 65 MB. That's OK.) Reinstalled just the two
<BR>> CDs. Took about two-plus hours. Now KDisk Free shows
/dev/da0s1a <BR>> as 76% used with 1.8 GB free. /dev/md0 is
8% used with 700 MB <BR>> free. This looks OK to me.
However there is no apparent change in <BR>> the balky behavior.
I notice that often, while waiting seconds to <BR>> minutes for some
function to appear, clicking on something else will <BR>> cause the
first item to happen. I've seen this behavior when <BR>>
installing very fast disks on systems that worked well with slower
<BR>> disks - usually resolved by paying attention to relative <BR>>
priorities. So system is still not usable.<BR>><BR>> Kris - KDisk
also shows a line entry "devfs ? 1 KB 100%
used 0 <BR>> free" and the thermometer is filled with red.
No slashes around <BR>> devfs. I have no idea what that is about
and don't know if it is a <BR>> concern.<BR>><BR>> Peter
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