On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Shawn Walker wrote: > Greetings, > > I took an OpenSolaris USB flash key I was given (that had the initial 2008.05 > release on it) and overwrote it with the build 110 usb image using usbcopy. > > I noticed that booting the build 110 image is significantly slower. It takes > 2m 09s after selecting the boot option from the GRUB menu before I see the > SunOS banner, and then 36s before I get a language prompt. Once I go through > both language/input prompts, it takes another 1m 45s before the desktop comes > up.
The one obvious change that took place around build 110 was the cut over to lzma compression as opposed to gzip. And, standardizing on the global image contents (versus two - a global and a reduced language support one). So, not only are the contents significantly more compressed but they are larger in size. > This is is on an Intel E8400 system with 8GB of memory and an nVidia GeForce > GTX 280 PCI-X. > > Any way ideas on how to figure out why? I guess you could try setting the "live_img_compression" parameter to "gzip" in the manifest and try creating a usb image. Alok
