From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon May 4 13:21:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA16092 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Mon, 4 May 1998 13:21:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA16079 for ; Mon, 4 May 1998 13:21:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA06826; Mon, 4 May 1998 13:19:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: woods@zeus.leitch.com (Greg A. Woods) cc: Randall Hopper , Poul-Henning Kamp , freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/5296 In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 04 May 1998 11:46:29 EDT." <199805041546.LAA16661@brain.zeus.leitch.com> Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 13:19:31 -0700 Message-ID: <6821.894313171@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > It may not be my place to comment when I've no idea what hardware the > FreeBSD PR system is running on, but IMNSHO I'd suggest that you guys > aren't making appropriate use of the tools at hand. I would think that > if I'm able to handle thousands of PRs over a long period of time on a > slogging old Sun-3 then a decent modern Pentium box should be able to > handle 10's of thousands, if not 100's of thousands. You've missed the point - it has nothing to do with hardware limitations and much more to do with the fact that GNATs is just basically unwieldy at handling this many. It may have a wonderful priority matrix, but actually searching through and locating such PRs is a real pain. > In addition I hope it isn't necessary to point out that GNATS is free > software and is in fact quite easy to modify and/or extend. It's not Easy when you have the time and resources, sure. :( - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message