Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 19:27:01 +0300 (IDT) From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@cs.technion.ac.il> To: Jim Bryant <jbryant@unix.tfs.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.com Subject: Re: ftp.cdrom.com Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95-heb-2.07.980401192527.739A-100000@csd> In-Reply-To: <199804011501.JAA01463@unix.tfs.net>
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On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Jim Bryant wrote: > In reply: > > On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Mark Mayo wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Mar 31, 1998 at 07:50:25PM -0800, David Greenman wrote: > > > > > > The new 400MHz P-II's are using the 100MHz bus right? If so, this will > > > be the first new generation of hardware that I'll be considering upgrading > > > to - since my 200MHz PPro does very well right now. It will be > > > interesting to see if the 400/100MHz PII setup will provide > > > *significant* performance improvements over the PPro.. > > > > > > I think the 450MHz versions of PII will be out this summer, but it's > > > mostly the 100MHz bus that I'm interested in! :-) > > > > Please, if you put one of these beasts into wcarchive, consider > > re-enabling gzipping on the fly. I really miss it :-( > > i'd rather have the higher transaction limit. gzip is a cpu hog on > ANY archetecture. anyhow, and someone correct me if i'm wrong, 99% of > everything in the /pub/FreeBSD tree is already gzipped [except the > ./src directory, and if all you do is "get src.tar.gz", i'd just > highly suggest using cvsup instead... The ports. When I get to a friend's machine (and he doesn't have the ports installed, and certainly is not keeping it up to date with CVSup) getting some_port.tar.gz is very convinient, especially when all the bandwidth I'm getting is aroung 300 Bytes/sec. > > jim > -- > All opinions expressed are mine, if you | "I will not be pushed, stamped, > think otherwise, then go jump into turbid | briefed, debriefed, indexed, or > radioactive waters and yell WAHOO !!! | numbered!" - #1, "The Prisoner" > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Inet: jbryant@tfs.net AX.25: kc5vdj@wv0t.#neks.ks.usa.noam grid: EM28pw > voice: KC5VDJ - 6 & 2 Meters AM/FM/SSB, 70cm FM. http://www.tfs.net/~jbryant > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > HF/6M/2M: IC-706-MkII, 2M: HTX-212, 2M: HTX-202, 70cm: HTX-404, Packet: KPC-3+ > Nadav To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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