Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 20:44:53 -0500 From: "Francisco Reyes" <fran@reyes.somos.net> To: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> Cc: "stable@FreeBSD.ORG" <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: New US CVSup mirrors Message-ID: <200011210142.UAA98400@sanson.reyes.somos.net> In-Reply-To: <200011201427.eAKERL757456@whizzo.transsys.com>
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On Mon, 20 Nov 2000 09:27:21 -0500, Louis A. Mamakos wrote: >So, pick a "close" mirror (and note that in the US, 3 new ones were just >added that are likely very underutilized) and move on to the next problem. That is basically ignoring the issue and sooner or later it will come back to hunt us.. As the user base grows it will become more and more critical to find better mechanisms to use underutilized servers. I tried two of the "new mirrors". One was too busy and the other was too slow even though it is relatively close (hops wise). In essense when new mirrors are added it is very possible that many people may give them a try and may overwhelm them. It is also possible that some of the previously existing sites made then be underutilized. I think the goal is in finding an intermediate point betwen complexity and improvements. I still think there may be some improvements if we had some type of serial indicator of a mirror's last update. Then allow clients to try a few mirrors in order and if it sees an older state than the client is then it ignores that mirror. What is wrong with that approach? francisco Moderator of the Corporate BSD list http://www.egroups.com/group/BSD_Corporate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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