[solved]mylivecd iso creation very very slow?

[Krisbee]

Last time I used mylivecd is took about 25mins to create an iso. Now on the same machine with a fully updated install it is predicated to take 1hr 46mins and is so slow I killed the process.  What can be wrong?

I tried these switches in the hope of speeding things up, but it had no effect:

/usr/sbin/mylivecd --nodir ^/tmp,^/root/tmp,^/home/fred/tmp  --kernel 2.6.38.8-pclos1.a64  pc20110713.iso

Have I missed anything obvious?

This is on a dual athlon machine with 2GB of memory and a fast hard drive. PCLOS is installed on a single partition, has been stripped of data and at 5.3G leaves 33g free space.

[menotu]

Did you read through this?

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,89320.msg748075.html#msg748075

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,90086.msg754963.html#msg754963

[Krisbee]

Short answer, no I didn't see that thread.  Will read, digest and run again with compression on and report back. Thanks for the swift kick in the right direction.

[Krisbee]

OK, I didn't need a compression switch three months ago,but for speed it is essential now. With --gzip it took about 20 mins on my machine.