Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 23:56:20 -0700 From: Luigi Semenzato <luigi@best.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: feedback on installation Message-ID: <199808230656.XAA05937@shell14.ba.best.com>
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Howdy folks, I have just bought my hefty 4-CD set for 2.2.7 and I am installing it on a 400MHz P II with the usual stuff (Adaptec 2940 UW, 4.5 Gb IBM 7200 SCSI disk, Toshiba 32X SCSI cdrom, Matrox Millennium II 8 Mb, 128 Mb RAM, etc.). I have to install FreeBSD on 4 similar machines which will be geographically distributed (we are a startup and we don't have an office yet). I am trying to do a least-work, minimal-regret installation. So I am using the `novice' option, with the `install everything' choice. The `novice' choice of disk partitions seems perfectly reasonable as far as I can tell. Two things are bugging me a little, though. 1. This is not really freebsd's fault, but the `fake' disk geometry (555 cylinders x 256 heads x 63 sectors) don't add up to the advertised disk capacity, wasting about 0.1% of the disk. OK: so that's about 50 cents, he, he, fine. However, I am now wondering if the choice of geometry has any impact on performance. Is the filesystem code still making assumptions similar to 4.2 BSD? 2. The installation becomes dreadfully slow when it comes to the port collection. In other parts of the installation, the advertised transfer rate is between 100 and 1000+ KB/sec, but for the ports it slows down to 7 or 8 KB/sec. What is it doing? Is it because there are lots of small files? If so, should not they be installed as an archive? It seems too slow anyhow. Thanks a lot ---Luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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