Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 00:45:29 -0700 From: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> To: Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org> Cc: dougb@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /usr/portsnap vs. /var/db/portsnap Message-ID: <42F5BC19.5040602@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20050807.153425.21897310.hrs@allbsd.org> References: <42F47C0D.2020704@freebsd.org> <42F51979.2020509@FreeBSD.org> <42F54DD4.7080901@freebsd.org> <20050807.153425.21897310.hrs@allbsd.org>
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Hiroki Sato wrote: > Is the server-side part of portsnap available now? There is code for creating a portsnap mirror, but I don't think you really want that... > I am interested in > mirroring since portsnap.daemonology.net is too far from my box in Japan. ... instead, assuming that "too far" really means "too slow", try running the latest version of portsnap from the ports tree (version 0.9.4) using the -x option. That will enable "experimental" pipelined http code which speeds up operation by a factor of 10 or more. Colin Percival
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