On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 7:09 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 05:46:38PM +0100, Milan Jurik wrote: >> For now after elimination of file system caches and download >> deliverables IPS is (at least) 3x slower than YUM/RPM. I am not IPS >> internals expert nor others involved on bug submittion so we have no >> good possibility to discover the reasons for this performance issue. > > If you don't understand how our system works, it's going to be difficult > for you to make any rational decision about whether our approach is > correct or not. This leads me to my other point about this bug, it's > obvious that the participants are not behaving rationally. The bug in > question has quickly become a thread for reasons why the submitters > don't like IPS, instead of any constructive discussion.
Come on. The RESULT is what counts. And something is wrong with it. No user is interested in any story about whatever internal reasons for it. You basically say, that the end-user is stupid, if he looks on his stop-watch. Wrong approach! %m > > The point that Shawn was trying to make, and that the other participants > in this bug seem to have missed, is that performance is still a work in > progress. The bug database is for specific problems with a cause and a > solution. It's not a forum for rants or general nonsense. > > If you're able to identify a specific performance problem, we're happy > to look into it. However, filing general complaints isn't useful. > Moreover, the comparisions that were made in the bug report are vague > and hard to interpret. Much of this is like goint to the truck > dealership to complain that your truck doesn't accelerate like your > motorcycle. > > -j > _______________________________________________ > pkg-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss > _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
