On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Alok Aggarwal<Alok.Aggarwal at sun.com> wrote: >> >> 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.
To clarify: this is the 0906 repo on a stick iso image, served up from a local 0906 x86 machine. The first test was just serving up the repo off the lofi-mounted iso image; for the second I used rsync to put it on a hard disk to eliminate any lofi performance issues. (There aren't any obvious problems with using the iso image via lofi.) Anything else? Gigabit network; I don't have network contention; everything's on the same subnet. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
