Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 19:37:03 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: fullermd@FutureSouth.Com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: shouting in a void? Message-ID: <199809240237.TAA05857@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 23 Sep 1998 19:15:37 PDT." <199809240215.TAA26880@austin.polstra.com>
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> > Well, this is after not updating for about a month, I have a 486/66 with > > the 14.4 modem routing, the system being updated is a Compaq P75 (with a > > 120 proc stuck in) with a single IDE drive. > > It seems to depend mostly on the speed of your disk system. That's > because it does a stat(2) on every file in your local tree. I use it > over a 56K frame relay link. I used to run it on a P/90 with narrow > SCSI disks. I recently moved it to a PII/400 with fast ultra-wide > disks (IBM 34560W), and it's much faster. An update of the entire > "src" tree (about a day old) takes under a minute. > > I have a plan to eliminate the disk thrashing, but haven't implemented > it yet. Once that's done, I believe it will truly be limited by > the network link, unless you've got a T1 or better, or really slow > hardware. Heh. You have to see what it does to a cvsup server to believe it. 8) With 10-15 clients running, the 10krpm Cheetah in freefall is prettymuch nailed to the wall. Even if you just cached the stat results against the mtime for something in the repo, you'd win enormously. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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