On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 02:02:42PM -0600, David Syphers wrote: > On Friday 29 November 2002 01:32 pm, David Wolfskill wrote: > ... > > That should, at least, provide a reasonably valid set of comparisons. > > Thanks. > > I suppose Robert's results might be abnormally long if -current requires a lot > more memory than -stable, thus requiring a lot of swap, as Kris pointed out. > Looks like my 486 won't be jumping to -current soon :)
It's often more efficient to use binary installations/upgrades than source, on slow machines. For example, I build world on a fast machine, mount via NFS and then installworld on my slower machines. Kris
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