From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 26 09:50:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA24321 for current-outgoing; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 09:50:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from po2.glue.umd.edu (po2.glue.umd.edu [129.2.128.45]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA24309; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 09:50:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from modem.eng.umd.edu (modem.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.187]) by po2.glue.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA06664; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 12:50:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by modem.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA06070; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 12:50:35 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: modem.eng.umd.edu: chuckr owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 12:50:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@modem.eng.umd.edu To: Peter Wemm cc: current@freebsd.org, committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CTM users take note! In-Reply-To: <199608261638.AAA22795@spinner.DIALix.COM> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 27 Aug 1996, Peter Wemm wrote: > We have some bigish imports on the drawing board (gcc-2.7.2.1, ncurses, > nvi, etc) that might cause the people getting ctm deltas MAILED to them > some pain. > > It's been suggested that the exising ctm-{src,cvs,ports}-cur mailing lists > be converted to "slow mailout" and a seperate set of new "fast, all at > once" lists be started. > > Gary Palmer has written a nice slow-delta-mailout backend for the ctm > delta generator which should do the job nicely. > > It defaults to 2 100K chunks per hour, that's 2MB per 10 hours. Is this > too much? Too little? That's ideal for me, at least. > > The current configuration won't mail out a delta that's more than 3MB, > perhaps lowering that would be an alternative. > > Does anybody have particularly strong feelings about the parameters for > this? > > (Watch the reply address, this is crossposted..) > > -Peter > > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------