Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 05:41:31 -0800 From: David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Scott Long <scottl@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC src/sys/alpha/conf GENERIC src/sys/sparc64/conf GENERIC src/sys/amd64/conf GENERIC src/sys/pc98/conf GENERIC Message-ID: <20031210134131.GB23171@VARK.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20031209173308.Q3777@pooker.samsco.home> References: <200312072352.hB7Nqsw6011333@repoman.freebsd.org> <20031208190305.GA956@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> <20031209070020.GC59494@perrin.nxad.com> <20031209165827.GA18959@dragon.nuxi.com> <3FD65A5D.6060407@acm.org> <20031210001724.GB16547@perrin.nxad.com> <20031209173308.Q3777@pooker.samsco.home>
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On Tue, Dec 09, 2003, Scott Long wrote: > The other thing to consider is that the default configuration of > FreeBSD is to have UDMA disabled on the IDE CD drives. This is > unbearably slow on modern hardware, so it's unclear whether the overhead > of bzip2 would add onto this, or just be absorbed. It could actually speed things up by reducing the amount of data that needs to be read from the CD. Keep in mind that the speed of CD readers has levelled off to a constant, whereas processors are getting faster by 60%/year. > If we found a way > to be more intelligent about enabling UDMA, the overhead of bzip2 would > probably be totally absorbed. Either way, the recent RedHat and Suse > installers seem glacially slow too, so it might all just be academic =-) ``Whatever Windows does?'' :-P
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