Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 22:09:24 -0700 (PDT) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: chris@awww.jeah.net Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports-supfile Message-ID: <200006210509.WAA88573@vashon.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <200006210502.AAA68528@awww.jeah.net> References: <200006210502.AAA68528@awww.jeah.net>
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In article <200006210502.AAA68528@awww.jeah.net>, Chris Byrnes <chris@awww.jeah.net> wrote: > # If your network link is a T1 or faster, comment out the following line. > *default compress > > > What exactly is "default compress" Not to suggest anything too radical ... but you _could_ try RTFMing the CVSUP(1) man page ... :-) To answer your question, that line enables gzip-style compression of the traffic that goes over the network. It's a lose on fast enough networks because when the network is fast CVSup is limited more by disk I/O than by network I/O. In that case doing the compression just chews up CPU without providing any speedup. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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