From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 21 18:47:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA17164 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 18:47:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk (jraynard.demon.co.uk [158.152.42.77]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA17158; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 18:46:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from fhackers@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.7.5/8.6.12) id BAA13526; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 01:36:11 GMT Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 01:36:11 GMT Message-Id: <199606220136.BAA13526@jraynard.demon.co.uk> From: James Raynard To: phk@freebsd.org CC: hackers@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <28273.835398389@critter.tfs.com> (message from Poul-Henning Kamp on Fri, 21 Jun 1996 16:06:29 -0700) Subject: Re: cvs-cur-2135 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> Poul-Henning Kamp writes: > > I talked to Peter on the phone today, and remembered that the first > version of CTM had another kind of limit. Basically the idea was that > deltas were produced, chopped to bits and stored in a spool-directory. > > A crontab entry pulls things from the spool-directory, say, max 3 chunks > every hour or something. This means that the data-rate is limited too. Actually I don't have a problem with data-rate as I use FTP and can (in theory) download things whenever it suits me. However, it would be a more effective use of my connect time to use mail, as I'm getting really hammered by poor throughput to freefall - I got 95% packet loss a few minutes ago when I wanted to commit something. In fact, I've just subscribed! > Would that be worthwhile ? It would (now that I do have a potential problem with data-rate 8-) -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk