Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 18:56:02 -0400 From: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca> To: Murray Stokely <murray@freebsdmall.com> Cc: Daniel Lang <dl@leo.org>, Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org>, hubs@FreeBSD.org, re@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 4.7 Download Statistics Message-ID: <15782.1410.760385.123801@canoe.velocet.net> In-Reply-To: <20021010090635.K1982@freebsdmall.com> References: <20021010082732.G1982@freebsdmall.com> <20021010155247.GB20985@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> <20021010090635.K1982@freebsdmall.com>
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>>>>> "Murray" == Murray Stokely <murray@freebsdmall.com> writes:
Murray> On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 05:52:47PM +0200, Daniel Lang wrote:
>> I think it will be difficult to get real numbers, but maybe its
>> possible to get an idea or a trend.
Murray> 1. Number of bytes transferred from ${dir} directory.
Murray> 2. Number of files transferred from ${dir} directory.
Murray> where ${dir} is /pub/FreeBSD,
Murray> /pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.7-RELEASE, the ISO images dirs,
Murray> etc..
>> The question remains, whole ISO files? Just the install-iso? How
>> about repeated downloads?
Murray> Are repeated downloads substantial? I assumed they would be
Murray> insignificant.
It's a difficult problem for many distributions. We run a
centrallized cvsup server for our organization (and anyone who uses
our ISP) and the majority of our 200-ish deployed machines update via
CVSUP. We keep our own install master that is largely disk-duplicated
into new machines for install ... and the remaining installs come from
a single download of the ISO that I do each release.
I also offer free ISOs to anyone locally who expresses an interest in
FreeBSD. I typically distribute 5 to 10 copies per release.
... It may help get a handle on numbers if people were encouraged to
submit the number of FreeBSD hosts they run in their organization. I
know that take-up on a proposal like this isn't 100%, but then the ftp
stats aren't an accurate representation, either.
However, if you also asked for a 'number of downloads' type number,
you could compare the installations to the ftp to come up with a
slightly better estimate.
Dave.
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