>This is not an IPS issue; this is a distribution issue. Remember that >all of the bits on pkg.opensolaris.org have been redistributable for a >long time. That means that if someone wanted a mirror in say, Finland, >they could have set one up. For that matter, one could have been setup >on genunix.org a while ago.
IPS tries to be a network pkg management system. It needs to be simple and easy to be used by folks to create simple mirrors and maintain them. IPS stays at the heart of this process. You need to measure how many such mirrors are available worldwide and try to understand why there are few, many etc. Then, there should be as well a connection between installer, pkg management and all these repositories/mirrors worldwide. The OSOL installer, IPS should keep a list of all hot mirrors available and automatically select the one close to you. Your TIMEZONE -> auto select a close repo -> validate -> if ok install from there if not fall back to another one Otherwise again all these things are disconnected and users are left in dark ! >Fixes went in builds after b134 that reduced memory usage by as much as 60%. >At the moment (after the fixes noted above), memory usage remains >primarily a function of the amount of package data the client has to >process. Considering that the /dev repository contains nearly 70,000 >unique package versions, I'd say it's pretty good at the moment. Thanks. Looks good. What comparative analysis have you done IPS vs SVR4 pkg management regarding: memory usage, cpu or net usage , resource consumption in general ? Do you have any open documents where we can see how good IPS is versus SVR4 in terms of resource utilisation ? As well what means in terms of CPU/MEM/Net to install 2000 pkg with IPS versus SVR4 ? Thanks for all updates. stefan -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
