My initial impressions of AI performance were that it was significantly slower than jumpstart. Given that my major criticism of jumpstart is how slow it is, that's a problem.
(And I know how to speed jumpstart up quite a bit - simply use less computationally intensive compression schemes for the packages. Really, to get it up to scratch would need 2-3X improvement in what Jumpstart can currently give.) So an actual test: Test client is a SunBlade 1500 with 1G RAM. AI, with the repo image lofi mounted: 71 minutes to install packages. SXCE Jumpstart, off my usual (busy) jumpstart server: 44 minutes to install packages AI, repo copied to disk: 70 minutes to install packages. That's not brilliant, but the SXCE install is quite a lot bigger (7.5G with 300K files compared to the 2.9G in 110K files that the AI gives me). Calculating rates: AI: 750K/s, 27 files/s Jumpstart: 2.9M/s, 110 files/s That's a real problem. I imagine this is IPS, but we really need a factor 5-10 improvement. The overall time in addition to that is approximately the same in both cases - about 15 minutes covering the two boots required. Although WANboot does occasionally throw a fit and take an extra 30-45 minutes. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
