Peter Tribble wrote: ... > Do we understand exactly where all the time's going in > the install/upgrade/patch cycle? I've been doing a number > of tests recently (quite a lot, actually) and while I've > firmly believed that maintaining the contents file was > the big problem for some years now, all the testing I've > done indicates otherwise. Not that it isn't a problem, > but that it's not the major problem, and there are a > lot of other things that can be done that will have much > bigger payback. (At which point the contents file does > become the limiting factor.) Fixing the contents file > gives you 10-20%; I'm interested in the other 80%. I'll > try and knock my notes into a more sensible shape. >
No, we haven't done a rigorous analysis to determine where the performance issues lie in the installation process, though some people have done some ad-hoc work and made some proposals based on it. I think we'd all be very interested in your notes. Dave
