Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 21:13:32 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: sg <sg18@sina.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why install ports so slow? Message-ID: <20001218211332.K19572@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <001101c0696d$e848a2c0$640170ca@nx.cninfo.net>; from sg18@sina.com on Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 11:43:50AM %2B0800 References: <001101c0696d$e848a2c0$640170ca@nx.cninfo.net>
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* sg <sg18@sina.com> [001218 19:45] wrote: > 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. Making a lot of small files and many directories is something that is hard on a filesystem as meta-data (directory info) requires several more writes than simply writing to a single file. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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