Re: make readme (pkgsrc)

["Georges Heinesch" <geohei-ml%geohei.lu@localhost>]

Quoting Ignatios Souvatzis (16-May-01 20:40:54):

> On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 04:52:37AM +0100, Georges Heinesch wrote:
>> Quoting Ignatios Souvatzis (15-May-01 19:42:13):
>> 
>> > On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 07:50:48AM +0100, Georges Heinesch wrote:
>> >  
>> >> sd0 (internal A3000 SCSI) has /, /usr and swap.
>> >> It's a Quantum XP32159 2,1 GB drive.
>> 
>> > where is pkgsrc?
>> 
>> /usr/pkgsrc/

> Well --- then it's clear:

> all relevant disks are on the slow scsi bus (maximum raw
> transfer rate is 14.3/3 MHz x 1 byte/word == 4.77 MBytes/s, making
> the machine even slower than it might be...

> But to really make this faster, the make readme would have to be
> completely restructured, as others have explained already. It is too
> slow even on machines
> 10 times as fast as yours.

I guess the "make index" is as slow for analog reasons, right?

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