Tony Hoyle wrote:
> André Pönitz wrote:
> > One of my biggest gripes with MSI so far is that it dead slow
> > (which is, of course, a very subjective impression).
>
> Not so subjective when it comes to patching... VS2005 SP1 took 6 hours
> on one machine here. 30 minutes even to get to the EULA.
It took here more than a minute to show any kind of progress
(including the initial 'Wait' screen) so in my first attempt
I managed to start three of those beasts because I thought
I might have failed to click on the right link...
> Average is 2-3 hours. Much longer than it takes to install
> the product in the first place...
Been there, done that. Unfortunately ;-{
And deinstallation (service pack alone) takes the same time, if not more...
> There was a blog entry a while back where they explained what the
> problem was... to do with the way MSI does everything in memory IIRC -
> it can't stream a large patch from disk so you end up with your machine
> mostly in swap (650mb for the patch + working space for the
> transformations on a 32bit machine is getting close to the limits).
I have 1G of RAM here, and even though I don't remember the exact times
of the VS2005 SP1 installation I do know that while VS2005 SP1 was
deinstalling I set up and configured one and a half virtual machines
with *cough* undisclosed operating systems. Complete with compiler and
all the stuff nobody ever needs (I need 14 of them in the end, *sigh*)
Of course, this happend on a second machine, the one deinstalling
VS SP1 was not exacly usable in that time...
The positive aspect of this is that with the proliferation of msi based
installers one does not look too bad when compared with the average ;-)
Andre'
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