(imported topic written by jspanitz)
Why is it with version 9, some of the core fixlets download very much unneeded and unwanted linux components. We are finding this really annoying and it just consumes space and bandwidth. An example would be
Install BES Server Plugin Service
" fixlet which is just a small piece of software, but you get the idea.
(imported comment written by DanielHwang)
Hey jspanitz,
The reason why some core Fixlets download so many things is because of the nature of our prefetch [1] command and the Root Server. The Root Server (after a Fixlet is run) tries to download everything with a prefetch command before the action is run on the clients. We designed it this way so that the Root Server and Relays could cache files with the hope that it would increase performance (Instead of all clients downloading a file from the internet, it could download it from it’s Relay).
We are exploring ways we can prevent unneeded and unwanted components.