Have you looked into using torch and pyro to generate your patches? Brian Rogers "Intelligence removes complexity." - Me http://blogs.msdn.com/icumove
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Pally Sandher <pally.sand...@iesve.com>wrote: > Just as an example I decided to try this out with a large installer of > ours (900 MB uncompressed, 400 MB MSI with embedded CAB). > > With a single Media Element (CompressionLevel="high") it took 23 minutes > to build (approximately). > > As I've a quad core CPU (Intel Core2 Q6600 running at stock 2.4 GHz per > core, unfortunately I'm not allowed to overclock my office machines) in > my build machine I added 3 more Media Elements as per the original & > simply incremented the Id's & appended the number to the Cabinet > attribute. > The installer in question is conveniently split into 4 main areas. I > modified the DiskId attributes on the Components within 3 of those areas > so they changed from "1" to either "2", "3" or "4". This was roughly a > couple of minutes work using the find & replace tool in Visual Studio > (simply changing DiskId="1" to DiskId="[2-4]" in 3 Fragments, easy when > you have 1 Fragment per file). > > I then rebuilt the MSI & the build time is now 12 minutes > (approximately) so a couple of quick changes has almost halved the build > time. Looking at the CPU history in Process Explorer it doesn't run 4 > threads for the entire build time, it drops to 2 threads about 40% > through. The files for the cabs are split into 350 MB, 290 MB, 180 MB & > 90 MB uncompressed so a more even split would likely further reduce the > time taken. Bear in mind that different compression levels & > greater/fewer CPUs will give different results. > > I used the Visual Studio 2005 IDE to build my .wixproj in all tests. > > If only I could get the same sort of improvements out of msimsp.exe too > (can't even use MSI v5.0 msimsp.exe with this installer as it crashes > while v4.5, v4.0 & v3.1 work quite happily). > > P.S. I would've posted this as a comment on Bob A's blog but comments > are closed on the article linked below. > > Palbinder Sandher > Software Deployment & IT Administrator > T: +44 (0) 141 945 8500 > F: +44 (0) 141 945 8501 > > http://www.iesve.com > **Design, Simulate + Innovate with the <Virtual Environment>** > Integrated Environmental Solutions Limited. Registered in Scotland No. > SC151456 > Registered Office - Helix Building, West Of Scotland Science Park, > Glasgow G20 0SP > Email Disclaimer > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bob Arnson [mailto:b...@joyofsetup.com] > Sent: 17 April 2010 15:21 > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Speeding up Light command > > On 4/17/2010 5:53 AM, S.P wrote: > > I want to create an install package with WiX,but "light" command is > very very slow. It takes about 5 hours to run and create the install > package. My install package will copy 45478 files and 2190 folder on > system.So it includes a large number of files to copy.Could you please > help me if there is anyway to speed this up, without increasing the size > of the resulting file? > > > http://www.joyofsetup.com/2008/03/29/wix-performance-tip-use-multiple-ca > binets/ > > -- > sig://boB > http://joyofsetup.com/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
