Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 12:20:38 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: David Syphers <dsyphers@uchicago.edu> Cc: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 5.0-DP2 questions Message-ID: <20021129202038.GB37223@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <200211291402.42023.dsyphers@uchicago.edu> References: <200211291932.gATJWHL8041067@bunrab.catwhisker.org> <200211291402.42023.dsyphers@uchicago.edu>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 02:02:42PM -0600, David Syphers wrote: > On Friday 29 November 2002 01:32 pm, David Wolfskill wrote: > ... > > That should, at least, provide a reasonably valid set of comparisons. > > Thanks. > > I suppose Robert's results might be abnormally long if -current requires a lot > more memory than -stable, thus requiring a lot of swap, as Kris pointed out. > Looks like my 486 won't be jumping to -current soon :) It's often more efficient to use binary installations/upgrades than source, on slow machines. For example, I build world on a fast machine, mount via NFS and then installworld on my slower machines. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE958wVWry0BWjoQKURAp5nAKCHTarzGVVJAiBsC++7fMVGuYd7cgCglIwC eF1xCwFulEmJwyup1YJgwLk= =GjWS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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