Re: pulling from my personal channel only - is this possible ?

[zimoun]

Hi Andreas,

On Thu, 02 Sep 2021 at 12:43, Andreas Reuleaux <rx@a-rx.info> wrote:

> yes, this does make sense, and many thanks for writing this down in
> detail. - I will follow your steps (and develop my own routine).

Cool if it helps. :-)

> And computers are getting faster after all (to some extent still): My
> 53sec for pulling were on an 4 core i5 (with 16G RAM) - this e-mail I am
> writing on a 8 core i7 w/ 16G RAM as well - and I might want use it for
> guix at some point (and that should accelerate things then).

Yeah, some actions are CPU-bound but other are I/O-bound.  For instance
“writing package cache” is acceptable on modern storage, a bit slower on
SSD, and…  wait for it… too slow on spinning disks. :-)


Cheers,
simon