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15 <a href=
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23 <div class=
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24 <div class=
"date">16th September
2014</div>
25 <div class=
"body"><p>The
<a href=
"https://www.debian.org/">Debian
</a> installer could be
26 a lot quicker. When we install more than
2000 packages in
27 <a href=
"http://www.skolelinux.org/">Skolelinux / Debian Edu
</a> using
28 tasksel in the installer, unpacking the binary packages take forever.
29 A part of the slow I/O issue was discussed in
30 <a href=
"https://bugs.debian.org/613428">bug #
613428</a> about too
31 much file system sync-ing done by dpkg, which is the package
32 responsible for unpacking the binary packages. Other parts (like code
33 executed by postinst scripts) might also sync to disk during
34 installation. All this sync-ing to disk do not really make sense to
35 me. If the machine crash half-way through, I start over, I do not try
36 to salvage the half installed system. So the failure sync-ing is
37 supposed to protect against, hardware or system crash, is not really
38 relevant while the installer is running.
</p>
40 <p>A few days ago, I thought of a way to get rid of all the file
41 system sync()-ing in a fairly non-intrusive way, without the need to
42 change the code in several packages. The idea is not new, but I have
43 not heard anyone propose the approach using dpkg-divert before. It
44 depend on the small and clever package
45 <a href=
"https://packages.qa.debian.org/eatmydata">eatmydata
</a>, which
46 uses LD_PRELOAD to replace the system functions for syncing data to
47 disk with functions doing nothing, thus allowing programs to live
48 dangerous while speeding up disk I/O significantly. Instead of
49 modifying the implementation of dpkg, apt and tasksel (which are the
50 packages responsible for selecting, fetching and installing packages),
51 it occurred to me that we could just divert the programs away, replace
52 them with a simple shell wrapper calling
53 "eatmydata
$program
$@", to get the same effect.
54 Two days ago I decided to test the idea, and wrapped up a simple
55 implementation for the Debian Edu udeb.
</p>
57 <p>The effect was stunning. In my first test it reduced the running
58 time of the pkgsel step (installing tasks) from
64 to less than
44
59 minutes (
20 minutes shaved off the installation) on an old Dell
60 Latitude D505 machine. I am not quite sure what the optimised time
61 would have been, as I messed up the testing a bit, causing the debconf
62 priority to get low enough for two questions to pop up during
63 installation. As soon as I saw the questions I moved the installation
64 along, but do not know how long the question were holding up the
65 installation. I did some more measurements using Debian Edu Jessie,
66 and got these results. The time measured is the time stamp in
67 /var/log/syslog between the "pkgsel: starting tasksel" and the
68 "pkgsel: finishing up" lines, if you want to do the same measurement
69 yourself. In Debian Edu, the tasksel dialog do not show up, and the
70 timing thus do not depend on how quickly the user handle the tasksel
76 <th>Machine/setup
</th>
77 <th>Original tasksel
</th>
78 <th>Optimised tasksel
</th>
83 <td>Latitude D505 Main+LTSP LXDE
</td>
84 <td>64 min (
07:
46-
08:
50)
</td>
85 <td><44 min (
11:
27-
12:
11)
</td>
90 <td>Latitude D505 Roaming LXDE
</td>
91 <td>57 min (
08:
48-
09:
45)
</td>
92 <td>34 min (
07:
43-
08:
17)
</td>
97 <td>Latitude D505 Minimal
</td>
98 <td>22 min (
10:
37-
10:
59)
</td>
99 <td>11 min (
11:
16-
11:
27)
</td>
104 <td>Thinkpad X200 Minimal
</td>
105 <td>6 min (
08:
19-
08:
25)
</td>
106 <td>4 min (
08:
04-
08:
08)
</td>
111 <td>Thinkpad X200 Roaming KDE
</td>
112 <td>19 min (
09:
21-
09:
40)
</td>
113 <td>15 min (
10:
25-
10:
40)
</td>
119 <p>The test is done using a netinst ISO on a USB stick, so some of the
120 time is spent downloading packages. The connection to the Internet
121 was
100Mbit/s during testing, so downloading should not be a
122 significant factor in the measurement. Download typically took a few
123 seconds to a few minutes, depending on the amount of packages being
126 <p>The speedup is implemented by using two hooks in
127 <a href=
"https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/">Debian
128 Installer
</a>, the pre-pkgsel.d hook to set up the diverts, and the
129 finish-install.d hook to remove the divert at the end of the
130 installation. I picked the pre-pkgsel.d hook instead of the
131 post-base-installer.d hook because I test using an ISO without the
132 eatmydata package included, and the post-base-installer.d hook in
133 Debian Edu can only operate on packages included in the ISO. The
134 negative effect of this is that I am unable to activate this
135 optimization for the kernel installation step in d-i. If the code is
136 moved to the post-base-installer.d hook, the speedup would be larger
137 for the entire installation.
</p>
139 <p>I've implemented this in the
140 <a href=
"https://packages.qa.debian.org/debian-edu-install">debian-edu-install
</a>
141 git repository, and plan to provide the optimization as part of the
142 Debian Edu installation. If you want to test this yourself, you can
143 create two files in the installer (or in an udeb). One shell script
144 need do go into /usr/lib/pre-pkgsel.d/, with content like this:
</p>
149 . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
151 logger -t my-pkgsel "info: $*"
154 logger -t my-pkgsel "error: $*"
157 apt-install eatmydata || true
158 if [ -x /target/usr/bin/eatmydata ] ; then
159 for bin in dpkg apt-get aptitude tasksel ; do
161 # Test that the file exist and have not been diverted already.
162 if [ -f /target$file ] ; then
163 info "diverting $file using eatmydata"
164 printf "#!/bin/sh\neatmydata $bin.distrib \"\$@\"\n" \
166 chmod
755 /target$file.edu
167 in-target dpkg-divert --package debian-edu-config \
168 --rename --quiet --add $file
169 ln -sf ./$bin.edu /target$file
171 error "unable to divert $file, as it is missing."
175 error "unable to find /usr/bin/eatmydata after installing the eatmydata pacage"
180 </pre></blockquote></p>
182 <p>To clean up, another shell script should go into
183 /usr/lib/finish-install.d/ with code like this:
187 . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
189 logger -t my-finish-install "error: $@"
191 remove_install_override() {
192 for bin in dpkg apt-get aptitude tasksel ; do
194 if [ -x /target$file.edu ] ; then
196 in-target dpkg-divert --package debian-edu-config \
197 --rename --quiet --remove $file
200 error "Missing divert for $file."
203 sync # Flush file buffers before continuing
206 remove_install_override
207 </pre></blockquote></p>
209 <p>In Debian Edu, I placed both code fragments in a separate script
210 edu-eatmydata-install and call it from the pre-pkgsel.d and
211 finish-install.d scripts.
</p>
213 <p>By now you might ask if this change should get into the normal
214 Debian installer too? I suspect it should, but am not sure the
215 current debian-installer coordinators find it useful enough. It also
216 depend on the side effects of the change. I'm not aware of any, but I
217 guess we will see if the change is safe after some more testing.
218 Perhaps there is some package in Debian depending on sync() and
219 fsync() having effect? Perhaps it should go into its own udeb, to
220 allow those of us wanting to enable it to do so without affecting
223 <p>Update
2014-
09-
24: Since a few days ago, enabling this optimization
224 will break installation of all programs using gnutls because of
225 <a href=
"https://bugs.debian.org/702711">bug #
702711</a>. An updated
226 eatmydata package in Debian will solve it.
</p>
228 <p>Update
2014-
10-
17: The bug mentioned above is fixed in testing and
229 the optimization work again. And I have discovered that the
230 dpkg-divert trick is not really needed and implemented a slightly
231 simpler approach as part of the debian-edu-install package. See
232 tools/edu-eatmydata-install in the source package.
</p>
234 <p>Update
2014-
11-
11: Unfortunately, a new
235 <a href=
"http://bugs.debian.org/765738">bug #
765738</a> in eatmydata only
236 triggering on i386 made it into testing, and broke this installation
237 optimization again. If
<a href=
"http://bugs.debian.org/768893">unblock
238 request
768893</a> is accepted, it should be working again.
</p>
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"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/reprap">reprap (
11)
</a></li>
520 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/rfid">rfid (
3)
</a></li>
522 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/robot">robot (
9)
</a></li>
524 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/rss">rss (
1)
</a></li>
526 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/ruter">ruter (
4)
</a></li>
528 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/scraperwiki">scraperwiki (
2)
</a></li>
530 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet (
41)
</a></li>
532 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sitesummary">sitesummary (
4)
</a></li>
534 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/skepsis">skepsis (
4)
</a></li>
536 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/standard">standard (
46)
</a></li>
538 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stavekontroll">stavekontroll (
3)
</a></li>
540 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stortinget">stortinget (
9)
</a></li>
542 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance (
27)
</a></li>
544 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sysadmin">sysadmin (
2)
</a></li>
546 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/valg">valg (
8)
</a></li>
548 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video (
45)
</a></li>
550 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/vitenskap">vitenskap (
4)
</a></li>
552 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web (
34)
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