On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Ethan Quach<ethan.quach at sun.com> wrote: > >>>>> 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?
The hard disk is on the machine serving up the repo, a completely independent system. And that's all that machine is doing (well, apart from being the AI server, but it's dedicated to AI testing). -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
