From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 28 12:27:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2C1514C10 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 12:27:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id VAA64855; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 21:24:18 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Brian Dean , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall network performance In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 28 Jul 1999 12:14:50 PDT." <6604.933189290@zippy.cdrom.com> Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 21:24:17 +0200 Message-ID: <64853.933189857@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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