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Date:      Sat, 24 Sep 2005 05:27:23 +1000
From:      Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>
To:        Christoph Sold <Christoph.Sold@Bahn.de>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 6-Release Beta 5: extremely slow installation in VMWare 4.52
Message-ID:  <20050923192722.GM40237@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <loom.20050923T110251-378@post.gmane.org>
References:  <43329D19.2080702@davit.db.de> <4332CDE3.50903@samsco.org> <loom.20050923T110251-378@post.gmane.org>

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On Fri, 2005-Sep-23 09:14:17 +0000, Christoph Sold wrote:
>Unfortunately, our corporate firewall blocks anything but http/port80,
>https/port443. Thus, neither CVS nor CVSup are an option. in addition, the
>install is still running after 24 hours. At this time, the full install churns
>slowly against ports/x11-themes.

You might like to consider CTM[1].  Whilst you'll need to get the original
starting delta via FTP, updates from then on can be e-mailed to you
(typically 3 per day for cvs-cur).

>One more hint: "calcru: runtime went backwards..." pops up once or twice for
>each file.

Lots of kernel printf messages won't be helping performance.

[1] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ctm.html

-- 
Peter Jeremy



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