Alok Aggarwal wrote: > > On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Dave Miner wrote: > >> Alok Aggarwal wrote: >>> 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. >>> >> >> The lofi-mounted vs. copied to disk numbers above would seem to >> indicate no substantial impact there; it's not actually on DVD media, >> which is the real read latency killer. > > Ah, I overlooked the fact that's it's a hard disk > and not DVD media.
Was the hard disk a secondary disk, or the same disk as the install target? -ethan
