Hi Peter, On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Peter Tribble wrote:
> 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. Just curious why you went with a repo on disk as opposed to a networked repo? The repo on disk is particularly not suited to streaming reads. Alok
