Peter Tribble wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Ethan Quach<ethan.quach at sun.com> wrote:
>
>>>>>> So an actual test:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Test client is a SunBlade 1500 with 1G RAM.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> AI, with the repo image lofi mounted: 71 minutes to install packages.
>>>>>> SXCE Jumpstart, off my usual (busy) jumpstart server: 44 minutes to
>>>>>> install packages
>>>>>> AI, repo copied to disk: 70 minutes to install packages.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Just curious why you went with a repo on disk as opposed
>>>>> to a networked repo? The repo on disk is particularly not
>>>>> suited to streaming reads.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> The lofi-mounted vs. copied to disk numbers above would seem to indicate
>>>> no substantial impact there; it's not actually on DVD media, which is the
>>>> real read latency killer.
>>>>
>>> Ah, I overlooked the fact that's it's a hard disk
>>> and not DVD media.
>>>
>> Was the hard disk a secondary disk, or the same
>> disk as the install target?
>>
>
> The hard disk is on the machine serving up the repo, a completely
> independent system. And that's all that machine is doing (well,
> apart from being the AI server, but it's dedicated to AI testing).
>
>
Peter,
I really appreciate the effort spent in figuring out. The IPS team
is actively working on improving the transport performance which should
be available soon. It would great if you could run this again after
those changes are checked in.
-Sanjay
