Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 23 Jan 1997 19:42:28 -0500 | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Subject | Re: Packaged Kernel |
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Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 08:20:49 +0400 (GMT-4) From: Duncan Hill <dhill@sunbeach.net>
On Thu, 23 Jan 1997 bofh@snoopy.virtual.net.au wrote:
> If hard drive size and Internet connection speed double, then is the doubling > of the kernel source archive size an issue?
When you consider that some people are at the wrong end of an overloaded E1, or other such circuit (64K), and only get 100B/s, 6 megs is a _very_ long download. 12 megs is worse. It took me 12 hours to pull the A disk set of slackware, at night.
You (for each major series of kernel source) need only grab the whole thing once, then you need only grab the diffs (which unzipped usually average around 400k for the development series). Most users would kill me if I didn't do this for the sparc kernel snapshots.
---------------------------------------------//// Yow! 11.26 MB/s remote host TCP bandwidth & //// 199 usec remote TCP latency over 100Mb/s //// ethernet. Beat that! //// -----------------------------------------////__________ o David S. Miller, davem@caip.rutgers.edu /_____________/ / // /_/ ><
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