Hi Shawn,
On 01/11/10 05:39 PM, Shawn Walker wrote:
On 01/11/10 09:41 AM, Frédéric VANNIERE wrote:
Another thing that might be contributing to this is how AI is
performing the installs.
Can you provide the full install log?
It's here : http://pastebin.com/m3c26ca80
Note: The PWKinstall-opensolaris package is downloaded from a custom
IPS repository and is post-install my customization script (I'll post
about this latter) .
That helps quite a bit; AI appears to be executing the pkg command to
install each package separately and for other tasks (over 90 times).
Yep - that is how AI currently installs packages listed in AI manifest.
That's going to be much slower than simply executing the pkg(1)
command once for all packages to be installed. Not only that, AI
should really be using the python pkg.client.api that's provided
instead as that would further reduce the overhead of the operations it
is performing.
That is interesting - thank you for pointing this out.
Do you happen to have more data about what the difference is
with respect to the overhead of particular approaches you mentioned:
* calling pkg(1) for each package
* calling pkg(1) for all packages at once
* consuming directly pkg.client.api
We are mostly interested in memory consumption as well as well
time execution.
As far as stability of those APIs is concerned, are there any
significant differences between pkg(1) and pkg.client.api ?
I mean if we switch to pkg.client.api, should we assume
to be hit by API changes more often than we currently are
with pkg(1) ?
Also, pkg(1) man page is useful source of information and often
used as API documentation, is pkg.client.api API documented
somewhere as well ?
Thank you,
Jan
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