On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 19:43, Thomas Maier-Komor wrote: > Hi everybody, > > installing software and patching the system are standard procedures of system > administration that keep recurring on regular intervals. Especially, when > someone evaluates a new OS these are probably one of the first things people > try. Solaris has greatly imporved usability in the past, by adding smpatch and > updatemanger, which ease things a lot., although they have issues of their > own. > > But the performance of adding a patch or installing a package is very bad at > best > and lags behind other OSs. ... > So my questions: > - is there anything being done to improve the performance of these tools? > - is there any kind of specification how these tools work internally? > - why is the release of the pkgadd and patchadd sources scheduled for the > last phase? > - are there any open RFEs concerning the performance of these tools? > - does nobody care that the abysmal performance of these tools makes Solaris > look bad right from the beginning to a newbie?
Yes! It's an active topic. Head on over to install-discuss and join in the fun! (Not just performance, but the entire install process.) -- -Peter Tribble L.I.S., University of Hertfordshire - http://www.herts.ac.uk/ http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ perf-discuss mailing list perf-discuss@opensolaris.org
