> That's a bold statement. And bold statements should not go unanswered.
HA! That's NOTHING! Try this: "grep is 5000 times faster than swup". BTW, I use TSL largely because it has swup! I think swup is GREAT. This is not a problem. Stop reading now. On my SLOWEST 180 Mhz computer, swup = 5-20 seconds, grep = .01 seconds. On my fast computer, grep <= .004 seconds. Swup? 5-20 seconds. What your test showed was that swup is so SLOW even adding grep did not make it WORSE. :-) You tested "swup --search" vs "swup | grep", but what we're doing is "swup > file" (slow part) followed by multiple grep's on the same file (fast). If I am sure I know the package I want, I do "swup --install" right away. If I am 98% sure I use "swup --search-package". But that's not the real point; I really don't think it's bad on clock time; the point is PERCEIVED time. SOMETIMES swup downloads files (you lose) and sometimes not (you win); on top of that, every run involves a random time element as it goes over the Internet so its runtime is always inconsistent but always slower than grepping a file. I KNOW grep is ALWAYS consistently fast. On my computers grepping a local file is always AT LEAST 500 times faster than running swup. YMMV -- if your drive is slower than your Internet connection. What does it take to mirror the RDF's to my LAN and turn off swup's caching thing entirely? I would guess if I could eliminate "the checking for updates" phase in swup entirely and just always use a copy somewhere on my LAN instead, swup would be consistent and fast. I am guessing that you at TSL swup more often than most people so you developers don't see the "downloading RDF" message as often as we users do. Your perception is that it is already consistent and fast. Maybe I should just be a developer. Aside: I finally deleted gatech.edu from my swup.conf files. Once too often it said "there are too many connections from your location." and died in the middle of swup -install. Deleting that entry has sped things up a bit; now search-packages never takes 3-5 minutes as it used to sometimes. :-) ibiblio still seems slower than trustix.org was but it never dies 1/2 way like gatech. (Hmmm... what's the point of me using the mirrors if they are always slower than the Trustix site?? I might just go back to the source.) Brian _______________________________________________ tsl-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.trustix.org/mailman/listinfo/tsl-discuss
