>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.
So you're saying that he's crippling the system and making pkg run worse? What reason does Peter have to make pkg come out worse? I would say that you owe Peter an apology. You're claiming you can install "entire" using pkg in 7 minutes, that, I think requires more explanation. (E.g, SXCE is 2.6GB *compressed*, that takes 3.5 minutes *alone* to download and running pk7zip takes many more than 7 minutes.) It's easy to run broken software more quickly on modern systems; but the software is still broken. You see, we want *more* CPU and *more* memory because we want to do *more* things with the hardware; not to do effectively the same thing less efficiently. Casper
