Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-3.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C61C21336971 for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2011 09:49:08 -0400 (AST) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 03492-05 for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:49:01 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com (hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com [71.74.56.123]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91FBB133616B for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2011 09:49:01 -0400 (AST) X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=+c36koQ5Dcj/1qolKHjtkYAGXvrVJRRiKMp+84F5sLg= c=1 sm=0 a=JRZeEW2aRuwA:10 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=RAii6je2cdnAH6ATCOpc6g==:17 a=JvfiiYfnGOxKzJB3TtcA:9 a=cCNSg3SZeVdCIIBJZYq3_5b5i6QA:4 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 a=RAii6je2cdnAH6ATCOpc6g==:117 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-Originating-IP: 74.73.87.196 Received: from [74.73.87.196] ([74.73.87.196:50590] helo=[192.168.1.100]) by hrndva-oedge03.mail.rr.com (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 2.2.3.46 r()) with ESMTP id 79/FD-24070-D41BD2D4; Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:49:01 +0000 Message-ID: <4D2DB14D.9070403@vmsinfo.com> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 08:49:01 -0500 From: Mladen Gogala Reply-To: mladen.gogala@vmsinfo.com Organization: VMS User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20101213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "pgsql-performance@postgresql.org" Subject: The good, old times Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201101/67 X-Sequence-Number: 41854 I am running a postgres update on one of my machines: Downloading Packages: (1/7): postgresql90-plpython-9.0.2-2PGDG.rhel5.x86_64.rp | 50 kB 00:02 (2/7): postgresql90-plperl-9.0.2-2PGDG.rhel5.x86_64.rpm | 51 kB 00:03 (3/7): postgresql90-libs-9.0.2-2PGDG.rhel5.x86_64.rpm | 217 kB 00:14 (4/7): postgresql90-contrib-9.0.2-2PGDG.rhel5.x86_64.rpm | 451 kB 00:40 (5/7): postgresql90-9.0.2-2PGDG.rhel5.x86_64.rpm | 1.4 MB 01:57 (6/7): postgresql90-devel-9.0.2-2PGDG.rhel5.x86_64.rpm | 1.6 MB 02:48 (7/7): postgresql90-se (68%) 44% [===== ] 7.0 kB/s | 2.2 MB 06:33 ETA 7 kilobytes per second??? That brings back the times of the good, old 9600 USR modems and floppy disks.