On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:13:05PM +0100, Peter Tribble wrote: > I'm using the hardware available to me. Generally that means > more modern hardware for OpenSolaris. It's not an absolute > number, but a straight comparison on identical VirtualBox installs > on my home Ultra 20 gives:
More specification, please. The Ultra 20 is an EOL'd system. It's possible to make benchmarks look arbitrarily poor by manipulating operating system tunables and fiddling with the hardware config. > That's for S10; SXCE is generally quicker, and can easily be made > significantly faster. The SVR4 numbers are pretty poor, really. Essentially > every time I've compared performance, pkg(5) comes out several times > worse. If you're comparing S10 and SXCE to OpenSolaris, you're comparing apples and oranges. This isn't really a fair comparison. > My install timings on an old sparc box come out at about 44 minutes > for SXCE, and 70 minutes for half the software for OpenSolaris. Pkg(5) is still under development. It's rather unreasonable to suggest that the unoptimized performance today, in development builds no less, will reflect the final performance of the product at release. We have more features to add and more optimization to perform. If you'd like to help analyze and fix, we're happy for your contributions. I'm willing to consider reasonably crafted patches for well identified performance problems. However, time I spend answering e-mail is time that I'm not spending writing code. -j
