Open ArjenR opened 2 years ago
Can you please give a number of seconds (or minutes) that "a long time" refers to? It is normal for this to take longer than most of the other steps when updating packages.
I'm experiencing this issue as well, any kind of package install that involves touching initramfs will take minutes to run zstd
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Just had my laptop turn on its fans and saw a weird 'zstd' process using 400% cpu.. Almost killed it then but looked in pstree first and saw it was something to do with the kernel and decided I should let it run.
How did you upgrade to 21.10? (Fresh install / Upgrade)
Upgrade from 21.04
Related Application and/or Package Version (run
apt policy $PACKAGE NAME
):zstd: Installed: 1.4.8+dfsg-2.1 Candidate: 1.4.8+dfsg-2.1 Version table: *** 1.4.8+dfsg-2.1 500 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu impish/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
initramfs-tools: Installed: 0.140ubuntu6 Candidate: 0.140ubuntu6 Version table: *** 0.140ubuntu6 500 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu impish/main amd64 Packages 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu impish/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
Issue/Bug Description: updates involving a new kernel or updated dkms modules like the system76 power package take a long time due to slow initial ramdisk compression. Compression level 19 is used.
Steps to reproduce (if you know): Update and or upgrade the system.
Expected behavior: As fast as 21.04
Other Notes: Perhaps initramfs-tools is expecting zstd version 1.5 (or later) which is reported to have significant speed improvements.