[indiana-discuss] [pkg-discuss] Updating SUNWipkg? Re: Repository update: snv91

[Chris Ridd]

On 24 Jun 2008, at 07:57, Dan Price wrote:

> On Sat 21 Jun 2008 at 02:24PM, Dan Price wrote:
>> Another problem is that pkg isn't very memory efficient-- most of  
>> plan
>> creation (on my box) takes about 28M of RSS.  At the end of the plan
>> creation, this swells up to 180MB.  I'm sure some of that memory  
>> could
>> be released once the plan is done-- we'll have to do some further
>> investigation.
>
> Chris,
>
> I did some more digging on this today, and have developed a fix which
> reduces memory to a peak of 53MB on my system, versus a previous
> peak of 181MB.  YMMV of course, as memory used is in rough proportion
> to number of packages present on the system.
>
> See http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=2315 for the
> details.  We'll get this fixed in the next couple of days, I hope.

Great, that looks like a significant improvement!

Cheers,

Chris