From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Feb 14 18:30:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CEF73EC9 for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 18:30:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@d60-025.leach.ucdavis.edu [169.237.60.25]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA26215; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 18:30:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id SAA76635; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 18:30:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 18:30:36 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Richard Wackerbarth Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/ports/ too big? Message-ID: <20000214183035.B76484@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <00021321052504.06543@nomad.dataplex.net> <20000213201132.B17462@dragon.nuxi.com> <00021323080008.06543@nomad.dataplex.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <00021323080008.06543@nomad.dataplex.net>; from rkw@dataplex.net on Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 11:05:35PM -0600 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 11:05:35PM -0600, Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > > It's not the CPU as much as it is the HD. The process is very I/O bound. > So much for $0.08/gig mass storage :-) Have you seen the thru-put these days of UDMA/66 drives? A 25gig UDMA/66 drive is only $200US. I still maintain that judging CTM capacity based on an ancient P5-166 with out DMA IDE is ridiculous. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message