After successful installation of ASG 7.1 on a 16GB CF-Card with IDE-adapter, the system works, but is too slow to be used. The web-interface response times are around minutes. A detailed analysis shows, that the io queue is full all the time.
The CF-Card used is a 16GB Sandisk Extreme III which achieves datarates measured by hdparm around 15 MByte/s with MDMA2. The same measuring during the running ASG shows only 2 MByte/s although ASG is fresh installed and no networks attached.
I assume, that the cache on CF-Cards is way too small with 1 kByte to be used by the Linux filesystems in combination with the requirements the Astaro processes has on the filesystem.
The background of using a CF-Card was to build an Astaro gateway with 10 ethernet ports into a 2 units high 19" case. There wasn't any room for a hardware RAID controller like a 3ware besides the two 4 quad-port gigabit cards, so some other reliable storage device was needed.
Of course, Astaro is not to blame, as officially CF-Cards are not supported. This note was only written for other readers who might have the same idea about using CF-Cards.
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