On Tue 09 Dec 2008 at 02:33PM, Danek Duvall wrote:
> I discovered that when importing a 7z'ed package, we're reading data from
> the 7z pipe one character at a time, which slows things down a bit. I
> filed
>
> 5724 seriously suboptimal bufsize in cpiofile.py
>
> and have fixed this globally with
>
> http://cr.opensolaris.org/~dduvall/pkg-bufsize/
>
> by making the default buffer size 128k for pkgsubprocess, and confirmed
> that it does speed up an import (just slurping the data out of the packages
> and writing directly to a filesystem takes 11 minutes on my system now,
> where I'd stopped it after 20+ minutes before, when it seemed maybe a third
> to a half of the way through).
Nice find. Fix looks fine-- I presume we're not committing the same sin
anywhere else in our code, correct?
-dp
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