Ok, install OpenSolaris on a server, create a zone, and then in your first zone just running this very basic IPS command:
pkg install SUNWman takes forever because it downloads each man page file individually. Downloading a large number of small files via FTP or whatever will always be slower than downloading one really big file over a TCP/IP network, and this is the achilles heel of IPS. apt-get on Nexenta is really kicking OpenSolaris IPS's butt right now in terms of performance and this is a real "apples to apples" comparison because both Nexenta and Oracle OpenSolaris both use the same SunOS / unix / genunix kernel, the same ZFS file system, etc. so the problem is obviously with the way IPS is implemented and not with the Solaris kernel itself (which has blazing fast performance as seen on Nexenta and Milax). Where are all the dtrace performance improvement people hiding? Perhaps they can use dtrace to explain why apt-get on Nexenta's apt-get is so much faster, since Nexenta also has dtrace? Might be a good topic for a sun.com blog or paper write-up. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
