Ethan Quach wrote: > > > 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?
Nevermind this question. I thought you were running the repo on the same system as being installed. -ethan > > > -ethan > > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss
