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Notes from building this site: what was added, what was measured and what it showed.
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Five ports trees on one site
OpenBSD, NetBSD's pkgsrc, DragonFly's DPorts and MidnightBSD's mports join FreeBSD: about 105,000 ports, each page comparing versions across the systems.
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What the disks cost the search index
Loading 105,000 ports into mddb ran at 125 documents a second on the server. Half the time went to fsync on spinning disks; the rest to a database that grew to 2.5 GB.