From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 4 01:21:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA21792 for current-outgoing; Mon, 4 Aug 1997 01:21:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA21786 for ; Mon, 4 Aug 1997 01:21:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id RAA21703; Mon, 4 Aug 1997 17:51:15 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199708040821.RAA21703@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Some thoughts and ideas, and quirks In-Reply-To: <19970804181747.18415@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> from David Dawes at "Aug 4, 97 06:17:47 pm" To: dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au (David Dawes) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 17:51:15 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, garbanzo@hooked.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk David Dawes stands accused of saying: > > I don't think it has anything to do with the tarballs being split. > I think the limiting factor is the average size of the files being > created during the install. Smaller average size means more files are > being created per kb, which is slower. Anyway, that's the correlation > I've noticed when installing packages. This is much less the case nowadays when the disk is mounted async for installation. Still I can't actually say I've sat down and measured any of this 8) > David -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[