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Snep :floofHappy: @40C3snep
Oct 10, 2025, 8:37 PM
Folks at work have complained about a terribly slow book keeping software that takes minutes to connect to the server and sometimes to even just open simple menus and documents, putting it off as "the software is just written horribly inefficient", because the Proxmox host it runs in is fairly speedy otherwise.
Today I was tasked with installing an update to the software, lo and behold, what do I notice? The VM's system disk is attached via a virtual IDE channel. IDE! No wonder it's slow! <w<
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Snep :floofHappy: @40C3snep
Oct 10, 2025, 8:38 PM
It took Server 2019 about two minutes *just to get to the boot screen spinner* and another five or so to get to the login screen. I wonder what difference a CrystalDisk benchmark will show on IDE vs VirtIO block or VirtIO SCSI
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Snep :floofHappy: @40C3snep
Oct 10, 2025, 8:45 PM
Outch
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Fluffviech ™️:mow: :snowmow:Kamikazepinguin@chaosfurs.social
Oct 10, 2025, 8:52 PM
@snep uiuiui, leicht uncool.....
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Snep :floofHappy: @40C3snep
Oct 10, 2025, 9:55 PM
@Kamikazepinguin Ein bissl! Nach dem Wechsel auf VirtIO SCSI hat die VM dann auch tatsächlich bessere Benchmarkwerte abgelegt, so knapp 14-fach besser :floofWoozy:
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Fluffviech ™️:mow: :snowmow:Kamikazepinguin@chaosfurs.social
Oct 11, 2025, 12:13 AM
@snep ja, das sieht in der tat deutlich benutzbarer aus :D nice!
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Fuxle :neofox_rainbow_256:🔜40c3morihofi@furry.engineer
Oct 10, 2025, 9:00 PM
@snep Reminds me when I tried installing Win 10 1709 x86 on my 18 year old Notebook. Took about 15 mins to see the spinner when booting from USB. Win Vista/7's progressbar was far more informative.
But after install to the IDE drive it was usable and booting (including login) took about 4 min.
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Snep :floofHappy: @40C3snep
Oct 10, 2025, 9:52 PM
@morihofi That's actually quite impressive, a 4min boot time total!
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