Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 11:10:04 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>, freebsd-install@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports install speed Message-ID: <199802221910.LAA07884@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 22 Feb 1998 09:31:14 PST." <27249.888168674@time.cdrom.com>
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> > 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
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