Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 14:11:52 -0400 From: "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Brian Dean <brdean@unx.sas.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, crossd@cs.rpi.edu Subject: Re: sysinstall network performance Message-ID: <199907281811.OAA86500@cs.rpi.edu> In-Reply-To: Message from "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> of "Thu, 29 Jul 1999 02:53:20 %2B0900." <379F4390.950D08FA@newsguy.com>
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> > 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
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