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To: Brian Dean <brdean@unx.sas.com>
Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: sysinstall network performance 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 28 Jul 1999 11:24:34 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 12:14:50 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
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> I was wondering what to attribute this better performance to.  Could
> this be due to the new network driver / newbus integration?

The CVS metadata was removed, reducing the inode count per port significantly.
This results in faster extraction time and hence "faster" downloads, assuming
that extraction time is the bottleneck (which it is for all but the 28K and
below downloaders).

- Jordan


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