On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 02:28:49PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > Updating with pdiffs took one minute nine seconds while downloading a > completely new set of list files took eight seconds. > > Test environment was quite unfair though (an old machine with an 1200 > MHz CPU and a single, slow disk on an 100 MBit link to a rather local > mirror).
1200MHz is slow these days? I ran this very test on Wednesday's night, on a super-duper machine overclocked to whooping 120MHz. But even though it was only ~10 diffs (installed from Sunday's d-i daily), I have to concur with your results :p And the installation isn't complete yet... -- 1KB // Microsoft corollary to Hanlon's razor: // Never attribute to stupidity what can be // adequately explained by malice. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]