From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 14 15: 0: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.screaming.net (smtp.screaming.net [212.49.224.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42B7E37B423 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 15:00:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lexx.my.domain (dyn3-14-ras56.screaming.net [212.188.154.14]) by smtp.screaming.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA03922 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 22:02:56 GMT From: John Murphy To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /stand/sysinstall - Installing the Ports Dist. Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 22:59:35 +0100 Organization: The Organisation Reply-To: bigotfo@bigfoot.com Message-ID: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.6/32.525 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Aaron J. Angel wrote: >Hi, > >Whenever I install the ports distribution, I get the same results no = matter what time of day: the download proceeds fine, but after exactly = 245760 bytes, the download drops from speeds around 220KB per second, to = around 10KB per second. I'm almost certain this isn't due to my = connection, because I can download a tarball of the ports directory from = any ftp site fine. > >Do you have any idea what might be causing the slowdown at the same = position every time? Thanks for any help. The ports collection slows down even when installing from a CDRom. Perhaps the directory structure takes time to create, though I don't know= why. Many people (inc. me) use dial up connections and _sometimes_ get = 5KBytes/sec. So I don't know what you're complaining about :-) (They prefer lines of ~75 columns here) ATB John. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message