poor performance of LMDE live media from USB

[yoshi314]

Hi all, i've transferred LMDE iso to usb stick and setup syslinux and generally made it boot properly, just as livecd/livedvd would.

The problem is incredibly poor I/O performance. It takes a few seconds for anything to start, boot time is quite long. It feels as if the system is struggling with some intensive task.

No other live system has such problems on this usb device, and i have quite a few of them in there.

The behavior is consistent across different computers. It doesn't seem to be limited to any specific application - everything starts up very slowly on mint, all other systems work fairly quickly.

Out of experimentation, i've unpacked mint's squashfs image, stripped it of unnecessary locale files (localepurge). packed it again (with xz compression, as it was probably packed before). And put it again on the very same stick overwriting the old file.

This time LMDE started working much more snappy. Could there be a problem with squashfs image generation that might impact read performance, (maybe it's optimized for CD sector size?) or anything similar?

[Oscar799]

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