From owner-freebsd-install Sun Feb 22 11:11:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA26144 for freebsd-install-outgoing; Sun, 22 Feb 1998 11:11:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-install@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA26135 for ; Sun, 22 Feb 1998 11:11:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA07884; Sun, 22 Feb 1998 11:10:05 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199802221910.LAA07884@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Christoph Kukulies , freebsd-install@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports install speed In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 22 Feb 1998 09:31:14 PST." <27249.888168674@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 11:10:04 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-install@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Couldn't that be accelerated somehow, by mounting async, probably? > > It's already mounted async. I'm afraid there's not much to be > done about it. People should bear in mind that the 9K/sec is an *input* data rate. The ports tree compressess something fearful, and the output data rate is much less shabby than you might think. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-install" in the body of the message