It's always a cpu-bound issue for at least me, Jim. On a T1 line, top indicates 100 % utilization most of the time. Maybe installer scripts run at too-low of a priority? Kernel handles chmod too slowly? Sorting dependencies is inefficient?
Surely there's a way to profile this (?) > Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 15:40:02 +0100 > From: jimkli...@cos.ru > To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] pkg(5) very slow, may this be due to > local mirrors? > > Hello all, > > Now that I am into updating a number of hosts with oi_151a8, > I noticed that package updates are sometimes pretty fast, but > often VERY slow (like, one file every several seconds, which > for many packages with thousands of files translates into hours). > > The environments use a local mirror of the OpenIndiana pkg > repo, prepared according to (my) wiki instructions (dev/dev127): > > http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Making+a+LAN+mirror+of+global+package+repositories > http://wiki.openindiana.org/display/oi/Using+host-only+networking+to+get+from+build+zones+and+test+VMs+to+the+Internet > > Apparently, the installation tries to contact the official > server first (mirrors are marked as such, not as the authority) > since I see it failing unless I set the "http_proxy" envvar. > > # pkg publisher > PUBLISHER TYPE STATUS URI > openindiana.org origin online > http://pkg.openindiana.org/dev/ > openindiana.org mirror online > http://192.168.127.1:10002/ > > First I thought this was due to installation onto prepared > network images of the GZ and local zones (while migrating an > old server and it was still up, hosting its future BE's) over > NFS, with pkg executed from another OI host, and attributed > the lags to this. However now that the system is running, I > see similar sluggishness within the physical host and native > OS, and this is worrysome. > > Any ideas? > > //Jim > > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
