From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 21 15:45:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ind.alcatel.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CF681587D for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 15:45:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com (mailhub [198.206.181.70]) by ind.alcatel.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (ind.alcatel.com 3.0 [OUT])) with SMTP id PAA21797; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 15:43:23 -0800 (PST) X-Origination-Site: Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id PAA12142; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 15:43:22 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn1.utah.xylan.com [198.206.184.237]) by omni.xylan.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (Xylan engr [SPOOL])) with ESMTP id PAA08367; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 15:41:59 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3888F01E.AF550589@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 16:47:42 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steve Kargl Cc: Andre Oppermann , Jesper Skriver , Garance A Drosihn , John Polstra , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Please help spread the CVSup mirror load more evenly References: <200001212246.OAA36108@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Steve Kargl wrote: > > Andre Oppermann wrote: > > Jesper Skriver wrote: > > > > > > > > You will risk hitting 2 different server in 2 rapid cvsup run's, where > > > the first may be more up to date than the next, as Jordan wrote earlier > > > in this thread ... > > > > Does it matter? Who cvsup's regulary more than once or twice a day? > > Committers AFAIK do cvs directly. > > > > %cvsup > Damn! Forgot I don't want src-sys --> Hit ^C. > %vi ~/supfile Remove src-sys > %cvsup > > or > > %cvsup > Damn! Forgot I want to remove sup/src-sys/refuse --> Hit ^C. > %rm sup/src-sys/refuse > %cvsup > > Yes, I've done both scenarios. Perhaps an option to CVSup to test a group of servers and render a "rating" for each, or to choose a "best" one. Then an intelligent human being could use this information to occasionally change which cvsup server they use. Such a tool wouldn't be specific to CVSup, of course, and probably already exists in benchmarks. Suggestions? -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message