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Date:      Tue, 9 Oct 2012 10:17:03 -0400
From:      Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org>
To:        Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>
Cc:        svn-doc-head@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, doc-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r39701 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/hubs
Message-ID:  <CAF6rxgm_NWoLK9XwbZxuJkzy7VwUrAeQ9D7R-i3S64HRX9ap=Q@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.GSO.1.10.1210081943540.22950@multics.mit.edu>
References:  <201210072033.q97KXKEF065990@svn.freebsd.org> <alpine.GSO.1.10.1210081943540.22950@multics.mit.edu>

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On 8 October 2012 20:05, Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> wrote:
>
> The claim that rsync is a memory hog dates from its addition in 2002.
> I do not believe (especially given modern hardware specs) that the claim is
> still accurate, since modern versions of rsync have changed the algorithm
> used so as to not suffer from this flaw.
>
> This change is just swapping wrong for differently wrong, and should be
> revisited.

This was intentional.  I wanted to make these two changes in different
commits. The section needs to be completely rewritten in light of the
eventual loss of cvsup, and the non-acceptance of new mirrors.


-- 
Eitan Adler
Source & Ports committer
X11, Bugbusting teams



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