On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 01:14:08PM -0800, Brock Pytlik wrote: > [email protected] wrote: > >> I'd be happy to write the module, when I get some more free time. >> Provided we'll actually use it to make sensible decisions about buffer >> size. > > This would be great to have.
It does help to actually check these things out. Use os.statvfs().f_bsize. > In the bit of the search was I'm working on, I think changing the buffer > size from the default up to 128k gave about a 20-30% speed boost in > overall install time. That was on pipes, though; statvfs() wouldn't have helped there, as there was no vfs to stat (at least, not one reachable by a pathname). Danek _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
