Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 17:51:15 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au (David Dawes) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, garbanzo@hooked.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Some thoughts and ideas, and quirks Message-ID: <199708040821.RAA21703@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <19970804181747.18415@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> from David Dawes at "Aug 4, 97 06:17:47 pm"
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David Dawes stands accused of saying: > > I don't think it has anything to do with the tarballs being split. > I think the limiting factor is the average size of the files being > created during the install. Smaller average size means more files are > being created per kb, which is slower. Anyway, that's the correlation > I've noticed when installing packages. This is much less the case nowadays when the disk is mounted async for installation. Still I can't actually say I've sat down and measured any of this 8) > David -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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