On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 7:47 PM, Shawn Walker <swal...@opensolaris.org> wrote: > On 02/27/10 05:54 AM, casper....@sun.com wrote: >> >>> On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:48 PM,<casper....@sun.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> well the whole install took 2 hours >>>>> for 1 pkg !! >>>>> it seems that disk read/write here is the bottleneck (?). >>>>> iostat -D 2 shows my hd busy at around 100% >>>>> iosnoop reports a lot of access by pkg : >>>> >>>> How much memory? =A0It is possible that you're paging to death. >>> >>> >>> >>> Hi Casper, >>> >>> I am subscribed to pkg and caiman. >>> >>> Maybe his system is swapping to death. >>> But why??? If you compare memory- and CPU- usage of IPS to those >>> values of *every* other system on the market, it is unbelievable at >>> the first look. ^Horrific^ - to find the right term. >> >> Yes, that is true. >> >> I'm not sure why it needs so much memory; it is possible that using >> python contributes to the memory use. Both perl and python of wonderful >> primitives but you pay for how the primitives are implemented: they don't >> give you a choice. >> >> A long time ago, we re-wrote the "contents" file database in a (SQL) >> database; that was a bad idea for several reasons: you have again no >> choice >> on how the data is stored and this again added to huge memory pressure >> and apart from other issues such as not properly sorting the contents >> file, >> it made installing much slower and not faster. The contents file was then >> around 15-20MB, the database used 512MB or more. > > As a gentle reminder, there's a reason why the attributes section of man > pkg.1 indicates that it is "In Development"...
> Cheers, > -- > Shawn Walker > Forgive me the *lol* I knew that this comes (I even publicly predicted it). But then you should not ship this in a commercially supported product. Just a thought. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
