From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 7 08:10:36 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2F0E16A422; Sun, 7 Aug 2005 08:10:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd2mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3712443CF; Sun, 7 Aug 2005 07:50:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd2mr2so.prod.shaw.ca (pd2mr2so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.109]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IKU00ANLDJUAD20@l-daemon>; Sun, 07 Aug 2005 01:45:30 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml4so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.148]) by pd2mr2so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IKU00G87DJUHZH0@pd2mr2so.prod.shaw.ca>; Sun, 07 Aug 2005 01:45:30 -0600 (MDT) Received: from [192.168.0.60] (S0106006067227a4a.vc.shawcable.net [24.87.209.6]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0IKU00D15DJTVU@l-daemon>; Sun, 07 Aug 2005 01:45:29 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 00:45:29 -0700 From: Colin Percival In-reply-to: <20050807.153425.21897310.hrs@allbsd.org> To: Hiroki Sato Message-id: <42F5BC19.5040602@freebsd.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: <42F47C0D.2020704@freebsd.org> <42F51979.2020509@FreeBSD.org> <42F54DD4.7080901@freebsd.org> <20050807.153425.21897310.hrs@allbsd.org> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050724) Cc: dougb@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /usr/portsnap vs. /var/db/portsnap X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 08:10:37 -0000 Hiroki Sato wrote: > Is the server-side part of portsnap available now? There is code for creating a portsnap mirror, but I don't think you really want that... > I am interested in > mirroring since portsnap.daemonology.net is too far from my box in Japan. ... instead, assuming that "too far" really means "too slow", try running the latest version of portsnap from the ports tree (version 0.9.4) using the -x option. That will enable "experimental" pipelined http code which speeds up operation by a factor of 10 or more. Colin Percival