Re: Optimization tips for SSDs ?

[Andrew Doran <ad%homeworld.netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 04:44:18PM -0500, Matthew Mondor wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 18:05:30 +0000 (UTC)
> Dennis den Brok <d.den.brok%uni-bonn.de@localhost> wrote:
> 
> > It seems that 'cvs update' is pretty I/O-intensive. Does anyone
> > happen to know a less I/O-intensive way of updating NetBSD and/or
> > pkgsrc source trees?
> 
> Other than using csup or cvsup to update a working tree, another thing
> which helps is having a nightly-updated full CVS repository mirror
> (using cvsup or rsync via a cron event) around.  Operations on a local
> repository mirror are of course faster than through the internet with
> pserver or ssh.

git, anyone? :-)