Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 13:19:31 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: woods@zeus.leitch.com (Greg A. Woods) Cc: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/5296 Message-ID: <6821.894313171@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 04 May 1998 11:46:29 EDT." <199805041546.LAA16661@brain.zeus.leitch.com>
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> 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
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