Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 05:02:06 +0100 (MET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: jkh@freebsd.org Subject: More 961006-SNAP comments Message-ID: <199610090402.FAA02243@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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A few more comments on the latest snap. 1. I tried to build a new kernel, and the build produces a ton of warnings about unused parameters, signed/unsigned comparisons, and other things. Maybe it's just more verbosity than in the past, but all these warnings are not pleasant (that is, I would not like to get all of them from a CD distribution!) 2. I copied parts of the distribution on a local partition and completed the install at a later time. The progress line reports a speed of ~30 KB/s (and even lower when there is a kernel build going on). I can't figure out why it is so slow, even if the disk heads are jumping back and forth between source and destination, I would expect buffered reads before gunzipping the archive, isn't it ? As a reference, extracting from the net, on the same disk (but a different machine) was running at 300-400 KB/s according to the progress line. 3. there is a "locate.pl" file in /sys/pci. leftover from something ? 4. since there is a nice mouse support in text mode now (and I am enjoying it more and more) it could be the case to try to exploit it in the installation process. Don't know how hard would it be to integrate it into the current code. 5. In the install menu, when I try to select "Media" to select a different FTP server, it does not allow me to do so. I have to choose a different media, obtain a partial success (e.g. specify NFS, or file system, but not CDROM because it detects that there isn't one) and then change again to FTP. >From what I have seen this far, there appears not to be functional problems in the code, but perhaps some "youth" problems in the install code. Maybe it's worth waiting the next snap before putting things on a CD ? Luigi ==================================================================== Luigi Rizzo Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ ====================================================================
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