From owner-freebsd-current Sun Oct 13 22:45:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFD0B37B401 for ; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 22:45:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net (harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6810E43EB7 for ; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 22:45:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0276.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.193.21] helo=mindspring.com) by harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 180y2P-00027a-00; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 22:45:09 -0700 Message-ID: <3DAA599D.67FC2DB1@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 22:43:57 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Makoto Matsushita Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Old port recompiles needed (Re: Unknown symbol"__sF") References: <3DA9EA62.D337E8A0@mindspring.com> <20021014114320A.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> <20021014032931.GB23539@carbon.slackerbsd.org> <20021014124541A.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Makoto Matsushita wrote: > carl> 3.4 hours is a lot of time on a dial-up connection (granted it > carl> is not a one size fits all period of time). > > You forget that you still compressed image with about 30 hours (at > least, full 1 day or more), and it is not helpful for ordinal users, > not you. > > Again, reducing hours/percentages with compressed image doesn't > matter; please focus total download time which is actually needed for > all users. Missing the point is not helpful for the discussion. I downloaded the image over a 28.8K modem. If you have access to the FTP logs, the duration of the connection times could be digested to see the connection speed for each download request for the file. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message