On Tue, Jul 30, 2024 at 12:00 AM nsgnkhibdk2cls0f via illumos-discuss < discuss@lists.illumos.org> wrote:
> Thank you for clarification. But the overall experience with OpenIndiana > live usb is still very bad. You should have a look at it and do something > to improve the performance. > Historically, OpenSolaris/OpenIndiana/Solaris, based on the Caiman installer, have typically taken about twice as long as Ubuntu (which is probably a fair comparison out of the available Linux distros). I did some comparisons back in OpenSolaris, and I don't know whether there's been significant change in that ratio. Certainly the recent Debian installs I've done have been horribly slow. While OmniOS and Tribblix are very very much quicker, I'm not entirely sure how much of that work translates directly to OpenIndiana - with different targets in mind we can optimize in very different directions, and both those distros wrote something from scratch. A couple of the things I have in my old notes last time I looked at this (I haven't done a regular OpenIndiana install for some years now): 1. As the live environment is absolutely static, certain things could be precalculated ahead of time. I think it has to calculate the lists of files to transfer, which seems wasteful to do each time. 2. One useful trick I do in Tribblix, again based on the notion that you know precisely what the install environment looks like, is to pregenerate the full SMF respository (by doing a test boot and saving off the repository.db. it's going to be the same every time) so as to avoid waiting for SMF import at first boot, which can save a bit [especially in some virtualized environments where manifest import seems to run abnormally slowly]. But one of the snags is that there isn't a great deal of understanding of the live boot and installer internals. Being a good perl programmer many decades ago gave me Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris, and after spending a few minutes trying to work out what Caiman was doing I decided it was too complicated for me so I wrote all the tools for Tribblix from scratch in a fraction of the time. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------------------ illumos: illumos-discuss Permalink: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T2146e6ef483095b1-Mfe05e6abb9f60798a228cfad Delivery options: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
