Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 21:24:17 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: Brian Dean <brdean@unx.sas.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall network performance Message-ID: <64853.933189857@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 28 Jul 1999 12:14:50 PDT." <6604.933189290@zippy.cdrom.com>
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In message <6604.933189290@zippy.cdrom.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: >> I was wondering what to attribute this better performance to. Could >> this be due to the new network driver / newbus integration? > >The CVS metadata was removed, reducing the inode count per port significantly. >This results in faster extraction time and hence "faster" downloads, assuming >that extraction time is the bottleneck (which it is for all but the 28K and >below downloaders). We should look into distributing ports as a Makefile and a tar-ball with the rest of the files. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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