Extremely slooooooooooow kickstart installs

[Tim Edwards <tim registriesltd com au>]

Hi,

We are doing kickstart installs using packages from a package repository 
served from a (local network) web server using HTTP. Just doing a 
kickstart of the minimal package set (602MB 268 packages) takes around 
40 minutes on brand new servers (P4 3GHZ hyperthreading 3GB RAM).
Downloading RPM files from this package repository using wget (once the 
system has been installed) shows that packages come down at 10MB/s or 
more. The delay seems to be between package installs, ie once the 
package starts installing it takes a fraction of a second to install 
most of the time, but there is a several second pause between installing 
the next package.

Anyone have any ideas about this?

Thanks

Tim Edwards
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