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Date:      Fri, 29 Nov 2002 12:20:38 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        David Syphers <dsyphers@uchicago.edu>
Cc:        David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 5.0-DP2 questions
Message-ID:  <20021129202038.GB37223@rot13.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <200211291402.42023.dsyphers@uchicago.edu>
References:  <200211291932.gATJWHL8041067@bunrab.catwhisker.org> <200211291402.42023.dsyphers@uchicago.edu>

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On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 02:02:42PM -0600, David Syphers wrote:
> On Friday 29 November 2002 01:32 pm, David Wolfskill wrote:
> ...
> > That should, at least, provide a reasonably valid set of comparisons.
>=20
> Thanks.
>=20
> I suppose Robert's results might be abnormally long if -current requires =
a lot=20
> more memory than -stable, thus requiring a lot of swap, as Kris pointed o=
ut.=20
> Looks like my 486 won't be jumping to -current soon  :)

It's often more efficient to use binary installations/upgrades than
source, on slow machines.  For example, I build world on a fast
machine, mount via NFS and then installworld on my slower machines.

Kris

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