From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 18 19:59:55 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 18 19:59:54 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from baddog.yi.org (24-216-177-184.hsacorp.net [24.216.177.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79E3837B400 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 19:59:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by baddog.yi.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC5121DF4; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 22:59:53 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 22:59:53 EST From: mike johnson To: "sg" , Subject: Re: why install ports so slow? Reply-To: ahze@slaughter.necro.edu X-Mailer: Spruce 0.6.5 for X11 w/smtpio 0.7.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20001219035953.CC5121DF4@baddog.yi.org> Sender: ahze@baddog.yi.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG you have a 10meg tar.gz file and it untars into 150+ meg. its tons and tons of files On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, sg wrote: > Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 11:43:50 +0800 > To: > From: "sg" > Subject: why install ports so slow? > > Hi all, > I install ports from freebsd 3.2 release cd.it costs 25 minutes, > it display the speed is only 2.9k/sec,but the harddisk light is > always on,my cdrom lighter is only on occassionly.my box is HP > netserver e200,PIII 800 cpu,128M memory, > 20G harddisk ,all for freebsd,do it means freebsd create directory > is very slow. > N'r{ٚ[h&kyR+ryyب^nrazg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message