Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 11:21:33 -0600 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fetch -p Message-ID: <199810011721.LAA10552@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.03.9810012330430.21937-100000@mercury.physics.adelaide.edu.au> References: <Pine.OSF.4.03.9810012330430.21937-100000@mercury.physics.adelaide.edu.au>
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> When using fetch -p to download ports distfiles in passive mode, I > consistently get files with the last few hundred bytes missing, and have to go > and finish the transfer manually. Has anyone else seen this behaviour? > > Incidentally (and unrelatedly), the most recent download (which eventually > became truncated) fairly stormed down my modem - I averaged 1.63k/s on my > 14.4k modem for the transfer of MesaLib-3.0.tar.gz, which gzip -9 was only > able to shrink by .9%. Do you have compression turned on your modem? If so, pre-compressed files wreak havoc on modem compression and in many cases *slow* things down. In other words, 1.6K/sec is pretty good on pre-compressed data for a 14.4K modem. (But, I maybe mis-understanding in that you think this is actually better than expected, rather than worse than expected.) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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