Alok Aggarwal wrote: > 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. >
The time to start the kernel should not have been significantly affected, though; the ramdisk has grown a fair bit since 2008.05, but not enough to cause two minutes to load it on a system as fast as Shawn's. >> 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. > This sounds more like something weird with USB modes, like it's using 1.1 rather than 2.0. Dave
