From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 28 11:12:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from cs.rpi.edu (mumble.cs.rpi.edu [128.213.8.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4F2114C3F for ; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 11:12:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from crossd@cs.rpi.edu) Received: from cs.rpi.edu (mumble.cs.rpi.edu [128.213.8.16]) by cs.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA86500; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 14:11:53 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199907281811.OAA86500@cs.rpi.edu> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: Garrett Wollman , Brian Dean , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, crossd@cs.rpi.edu Subject: Re: sysinstall network performance In-Reply-To: Message from "Daniel C. Sobral" of "Thu, 29 Jul 1999 02:53:20 +0900." <379F4390.950D08FA@newsguy.com> Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 14:11:52 -0400 From: "David E. Cross" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Jordan stopped including CVS directories in the /usr/ports tarball. > > I don't think a transfer rate can be affected by that, though the > total transfer time certainly would. > > Anyway... Jordan did it? Thanks God! Ports is 20,000 some odd different files, the transfer rate is limited by disk I/O in creating those thousands of files. By eliminating some of the additional tiny files it creats I could certainly see an increase in throughput. -- David Cross | email: crossd@cs.rpi.edu Systems Administrator/Research Programmer | Web: http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~crossd Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, | Ph: 518.276.2860 Department of Computer Science | Fax: 518.276.4033 I speak only for myself. | WinNT:Linux::Linux:FreeBSD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message