On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 12:25:46PM -0700, John Forte wrote: > Yes, it seems slow to me. I have a CLI application that takes ~6 seconds > to add 100 property values, executing the command line for each. That > seems excessive. And the other implementation I was referring to is the > iSCSI target, which seems to exhibit the same timings.
Can you use one svccfg invocation to update many props in one transaction? > I just want to ensure that this is expected so that we can set > expectations on our project interface usage. As I said, it seems slow, > particularly if a customer was using our interfaces implemented over > libscf to initialize even a medium sized configuration. SMF uses SQLite, which implements ACID transactions. That will require at least one full disk revolution per-transaction, most likely more than just one. The best way to deal with this is to batch as many updates into one transaction as you can. Nico --
