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Date:      Wed, 28 Jul 1999 21:24:17 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
Cc:        Brian Dean <brdean@unx.sas.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sysinstall network performance 
Message-ID:  <64853.933189857@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 28 Jul 1999 12:14:50 PDT." <6604.933189290@zippy.cdrom.com> 

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In message <6604.933189290@zippy.cdrom.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes:
>> 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).

We should look into distributing ports as a Makefile and a tar-ball with the
rest of the files.

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!


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