On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 1:23 PM, <Casper.Dik at sun.com> wrote: > >>On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:13:05PM +0100, Peter Tribble wrote: >>> I'm using the hardware available to me. Generally that means >>> more modern hardware for OpenSolaris. It's not an absolute >>> number, but a straight comparison on identical VirtualBox installs >>> on my home Ultra 20 gives: >> >>More specification, please. ?The Ultra 20 is an EOL'd system. ?It's >>possible to make benchmarks look arbitrarily poor by manipulating >>operating system tunables and fiddling with the hardware config. > > So you're saying that he's crippling the system and making pkg run > worse? ?What reason does Peter have to make pkg come out worse? > > I would say that you owe Peter an apology.
+1, Casper!! > > You're claiming you can install "entire" using pkg in 7 minutes, that, I > think requires more explanation. ?(E.g, SXCE is 2.6GB *compressed*, > that takes 3.5 minutes *alone* to download and running pk7zip takes > many more than 7 minutes.) > > It's easy to run broken software more quickly on modern systems; but the > software is still broken. > > You see, we want *more* CPU and *more* memory because we want to do > *more* things with the hardware; not to do effectively the same thing less > efficiently. > > > Casper > > _______________________________________________ > on-discuss mailing list > on-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/on-discuss >
