From owner-freebsd-current Fri Nov 29 12:20:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E91737B401 for ; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 12:20:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-169-106-47.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.169.106.47]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 607E843E88 for ; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 12:20:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB5C966BE3; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 12:20:38 -0800 (PST) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 698FE12B3; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 12:20:38 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 12:20:38 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: David Syphers Cc: David Wolfskill , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 5.0-DP2 questions Message-ID: <20021129202038.GB37223@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <200211291932.gATJWHL8041067@bunrab.catwhisker.org> <200211291402.42023.dsyphers@uchicago.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ZoaI/ZTpAVc4A5k6" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200211291402.42023.dsyphers@uchicago.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --ZoaI/ZTpAVc4A5k6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. >=20 > Thanks. >=20 > I suppose Robert's results might be abnormally long if -current requires = a lot=20 > more memory than -stable, thus requiring a lot of swap, as Kris pointed o= ut.=20 > 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 --ZoaI/ZTpAVc4A5k6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE958wVWry0BWjoQKURAp5nAKCHTarzGVVJAiBsC++7fMVGuYd7cgCglIwC eF1xCwFulEmJwyup1YJgwLk= =GjWS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ZoaI/ZTpAVc4A5k6-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message