Adding and Updating Software in Oracle^® Solaris 11.3

Increase Package Installation Performance

The following steps can help increase package installation and update performance:

• Make sure your ZFS storage pool capacity is less than 90%.

  $ zpool list
  NAME  SIZE ALLOC FREE CAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT
  rpool 186G 75.2G 111G 40% 1.00x ONLINE -

• Use a local package repository. See Copying and Creating Package Repositories in Oracle Solaris 11.3.

• If http_proxy is set, check the performance of the proxy.

• If you are installing or updating a large number of systems, for example a large number of Oracle VM Servers, configure an Apache web server and set the pkg/threads property as described in Configuring a Simple Prefixed Proxy in Copying and Creating Package Repositories in Oracle Solaris 11.3.