Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 12:43:28 -0400 From: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> Cc: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> Subject: Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 5.1 Released! Message-ID: <20030610164328.GD2099@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> In-Reply-To: <200306101624.h5AGO6Ol099574@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <20030610160605.GB2099@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> <200306101624.h5AGO6Ol099574@lurza.secnetix.de>
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On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 06:24:06PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> On the other hand -- When someone from the RE team posts
> a message to hubs@ like "5.1 for i386 available now!",
> I guess many people will start their sync jobs immediately.
> That's already some kind of "push". So there's the same
> load situation, except everyone has started the thing
> manually, instead of having it initiated automatically.
Yup. But that's arguably a "special case". If you can fold the special
case into what you use for day-to-day stuff that's great. But sometimes
it's best to design the system for the day-to-day stuff and leave the
special cases as special cases. Depends on how often the special cases
come along.
> If the load is really a serious problem, then the "push"
> notifications can be sent out with a certain delay between
> them. I'm sure it can be done.
It's all software. You can make it do anything you want. :-)
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Ken Smith
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