From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 18 21:14: 7 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 18 21:14:05 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0B5637B400 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 21:14:05 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id eBJ5DWp27117; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 21:13:32 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 21:13:32 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: sg Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why install ports so slow? Message-ID: <20001218211332.K19572@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <001101c0696d$e848a2c0$640170ca@nx.cninfo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <001101c0696d$e848a2c0$640170ca@nx.cninfo.net>; from sg18@sina.com on Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 11:43:50AM +0800 Sender: bright@fw.wintelcom.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * sg [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