Sarah Jelinek wrote: > I didn't assume the central issue was corruption. I assumed the central > issue was the need to write to the contents file for every package > add/remove and that this was a time consuming process, basically a > performance issue. Peter's analysis does indicate that this does take > ~1/3 of the install time.
Simply put, installing a 10K package on my machine requires 25MB + 10K of IO. Watch an install sometime; the whole thing starts off pretty quickly, but package by package, slows down as the contents file gets larger and larger. - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance barts at cyber.eng.sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/barts
