Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 12:23:48 -0500 From: James Olson <jolson@cs.wisc.edu> To: Daniel Lang <dl@leo.org> Cc: hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WWW/CVS Mirror ... Information ? Message-ID: <20010821122348.B15901@tux38.cs.wisc.edu> In-Reply-To: <20010821181953.D10931@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>; from dl@leo.org on Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 06:19:53PM %2B0200 References: <20010821114713.X59289-100000@orbimus.dhs.org> <20010821181953.D10931@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
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Along the same lines, is it possible to be an official mirror without mirroring all 50 gigs? Currently I have 4.2, 4.3, 4.x stable and all -current stuff mirrored until i can get more disk space for the rest of FreeBSD. -Jim On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 06:19:53PM +0200, Daniel Lang wrote: > Dear Kyle, > > Kyle Rollin wrote on Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 11:54:40AM -0400: > [..] > > First, thanks for your offer and your commitment to contribute > to the distribution of FreeBSD. > > I cannot speak for the project, just for myself. > Alas, your equipment seems not sufficient for the job. > A full mirror of FreeBSD can consume up to 50 GB, > you would have to make a _very careful_ selection of what to mirror > and still have to fight with full filesystems. > Bandwidth may be ok, but could become a bottleneck. > > CPU and memory may not be the issue, but will also limit > the number of clients (and the services you can offer) > (esp. memory). > > Here are some figures for my site, which handles on average > about 40 FTP , 3 rsync and 2 cvsup connections (but not just FreeBSD): > > 4 x PPro 200 (just like yours, but a 4-way SMP), 512 MB RAM, > and ~ 400 GB on disk arrays, 100Mbps switched to a shared > OC-12 line. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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