From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Feb 14 19:10: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 055CD411C for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 19:09:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA43788; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 22:08:23 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 22:08:22 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Richard Wackerbarth Subject: Re: /usr/ports/ too big? In-Reply-To: <20000214183035.B76484@dragon.nuxi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, David O'Brien wrote: > On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 11:05:35PM -0600, Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > > > > 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 :-) > > Have you seen the thru-put these days of UDMA/66 drives? A 25gig UDMA/66 > drive is only $200US. I still maintain that judging CTM capacity based > on an ancient P5-166 with out DMA IDE is ridiculous. David and Richard, both of you, will you *please* stop referring to ctm as part of the problem? It's running FINE. Pick on something else if you really need a target. How about, uhh, bento's build scripts (oh, god, now I got Billf on my case :-) Honestly, we are getting a free machine and free web from Ulf Zimmerman, and it's perfectly ok. I will be really upset at someone if runaway mouth makes certain folks think they are unappreciated ... > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD, chuckr@picnic.mat.net | electronics, communications, and signal processing. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up fictitious words in the dictionary. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message