[Casper] EXTREMELY slow imaging

[Thomas Larkin]

Last summer my co-workers and I reimaged all of our Macbooks with a dual booting image of OS 10.5 and XP Pro SP2.  We set up 20 to 25 clients at a time and unicasted an image to them, the OS 10.5 image was around 8 or 9 gigs in size and the XP Pro image was around 5 gigs in size.  Attached is a screen shot of AFP throughput in a graph.  If you notice there is one graph that kind of tapers off towards the end of the imaging process.  That was due to either us not launching all the clients at the same time, because AFP will try to load balance all the connections  and your throughput goes down, or we had some Macbooks with poor performing disk I/O.


 

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>>> John Wetter <john_wetter at hopkins.k12.mn.us> 07/08/09 7:41 PM >>> 
In your AFP server, add more memory, and then some more memory...  I'd say 8GB is a minimum.  Of course, if this is only occasional as you elude to, then it might be a server utilization issue, even if the server is doing a bunch of SUS downloads, or something is running with errors so it's logging like crazy.  Also, is it new enough hardware to be all gigabit?  As Tom mentioned, a really long image time or a bad image can also be a signal that the HDD is about to completely flake out.

Thanks,
John

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From: "Wann, Peter" <p.wann at tcu.edu>
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 15:30:52 -0500
To: <casper at list.jamfsoftware.com>
Subject: [Casper] EXTREMELY slow imaging

Hi all, long time listener, first time caller...

I've been using Casper for about a month now, we've completely
migrated our imaging processes over to JSS/Casper Imaging, and for the
most part everything is awesome.

Except that every once in a while I'll get a system that is slow as
Christmas in taking a new image. This makes no sense to me at all
since I'm on a gigabit connection to my server, and it's the ONLY
system being imaged. I suppose there could be heavy network overhead,
but I doubt it since it's the summer and nearly everyone is out of the
office.

Has anyone else seen this behavior, and if so, did you find a way
around it?

Thanks,

Pete Wann
Apple Systems Administrator
Texas Christian University
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