>patchadd is taking very long to perform its actions. As far as I am >concerned PSARC 2009/173 (turb ocharged SVr4 package commands) doesn't >make any difference. So I took a short look at what patchad d is >actually doing. While running, it performs about 70k filesystem ops/s. >Additionally, it perfor ms fork/exec at a rate of about 200/s, which >might be the real cause for the 30% cpu kernel load on >my 2 processor machine.
PSARC 2009/173 doesn't make a lot of difference with patches; most of the work done by patchadd is not directly "pkgadd/pkgrm" related; also, it makes a lot "dryrun" packages and that negates the caching of the contents file. Casper
