Hi Shawn, Please see my comments inline.
On 03/23/10 10:17, Shawn Walker wrote: > On 03/23/10 12:12 PM, sanjay nadkarni wrote: >> Please review the fix for: >> >> 15132 <http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=15132> >> client side AI installs can benefit from using batch pkg installs. >> The webrev is available at: >> http://cr.opensolaris.org/~nadkarni/bugfix/ >> >> I will need to 2 reviewers for this fix since it is targeted for release >> build. >> >> >> The following tests for sparc and x86 have been done: >> Creating DC images for AI, LiveCD and textinstall. >> Doing AI installs on a large set of systems that spans memory sizes from >> 512MB to 12GB and diverse x86 and SPARC hardware. (Thanks to Mary Ding). >> Installs with manifests of over 260 pkgs to add have been tested and it >> showed significant performance improvement. A graphs that shows this for >> x86 has been attached to the bug report. SPARC systems also showed >> similar improvements and once testing is complete, information graphs >> for that will also be attached to the bug report. > > This isn't easily discernible to me, but other things that can help > here are: > > * using --no-refresh and --no-index with all of the install commands > > * using --no-index with all of the install commands --no-index is done for both install and uninstall commands already. We currently do not have --no-refresh specified for the install commands. Previously, installing packages will not refresh the catalog. It sounds like it does now? We only have --no-refresh for our set-publisher calls. > > * executing a single 'pkg rebuild-index' after all install and > uninstall operations have completed We don't want to include the indexes on the Live CD because they take up space. "pkg rebuild-index" is executed by the installer on the installed system. Thanks, --Karen > > Cheers,
