[OpenIndiana-discuss] Is hipster repo slow for pkg commands

[Harry Putnam]

Aurélien Larcher <aurelien.larcher at gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 3:41 PM, Harry Putnam <reader at newsguy.com> wrote:
>
>> [Note: comments below NOT to be seen as load complaining]
>>
>> Running pkg update I've noticed that is seems really slow.  Maybe a
>> local network mess I've made? or is the repo pretty slow?
>
>
>> During pkg update (last was Mar 3) I see speed measured in  700-900 k/s
>> during
>> pkg downloads, shouldn't I be seeing measurments in at least several
>> m/s or so?
>>
>
> I am on a university network and reach 10M/s.

Oh boy, that must be nice!  What does that figure out to compared to the
rates I posted... something like 11 times faster?  Thats a lot.  What
takes me an hour to download, you'd get in about 5 minutes.

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> pkg does not search only for package names but for actions so it is bound
> to be slower than tarball-based package management systems.

Good to know, thank you.