Lars Engels had an idea. Why not have a place where you can download a port skeleton? You know, the files that make up a port (Makefile, pkg-plist, distinfo, etc). As Lars put it: It came to my mind when I tried out the Frenzy live cd yesterday. It does not have the iwi-firmware port […]
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I ran some tests today. Without caching, I got 5.36 transactions per second (tps). If commit history is cached, I get 7.25 tps. What actually happens in a transaction isn’t relevent. What is important is that by caching I get 35% more transaction per second. That is, the system performance increase by 35%. That’s pretty
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In addition to the port history caching which I mentioned previously, I recently implemented some changes which will make it easier to cache yet more data. Specifically, the port details (e.g short description, long description). I’ve been playing with benchmarks/siege to see how many transactions per second I can put through my development server. Then