From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Feb 13 21:10:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mail.utexas.edu (wb2-a.mail.utexas.edu [128.83.126.136]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 544484955 for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2000 21:10:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 3864 invoked by uid 0); 14 Feb 2000 05:10:16 -0000 Received: from dial-51-34.ots.utexas.edu (HELO nomad.dataplex.net) (128.83.113.130) by umbs-smtp-2 with SMTP; 14 Feb 2000 05:10:16 -0000 From: Richard Wackerbarth To: "David O'Brien" Subject: Re: /usr/ports/ too big? Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 23:05:35 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <00021321052504.06543@nomad.dataplex.net> <20000213201132.B17462@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20000213201132.B17462@dragon.nuxi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00021323080008.06543@nomad.dataplex.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, David O'Brien wrote: > On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 08:19:07PM -0600, Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > > > The machine is a pentium 120; maybe if things get worse sometime, the > > > > However, we could be giving much more frequent service if we were > > working from a smaller tree. > > You could give much more frequent service if you replaced the > !!_P5-120_!! (which you can buy used for $75) with something of modern > horse power. Geez, a P5-120 is too slow so lets labotimize the input?? It's not the CPU as much as it is the HD. The process is very I/O bound. So much for $0.08/gig mass storage :-) -- Richard Wackerbarth rkw@Dataplex.NET To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message