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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



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