> As I have said on this list: pkgsrc bootstrap on OI is 4x slower than on > FreeBSD. Building packages also that slower. > > I think the problem is of the shell. Because I see it checking for > something very slowly. >
Process creation (fork/exec) has been known to be slow on Solaris (and thus illumos) for years. Unfortunately things like configure and an awful lot of build tools spawn a huge number of processes - this is horrendously inefficient on all platforms, but the slowdown on the platforms where most of this stuff originates isn't so obviously bad that there's motivation to fix it. (Generally, Solaris and illumos are optimized for well-behaved software, Linux is optimised for badly behaved software. Unfortunately, there's a lot more badly behaved software out there than good stuff.) > From your own experience, which shell is the fastest? > I tried replacing sh with dash as the system shell, and it gave a decent improvement in things like boot times. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
