On 9/12/2011 11:05 AM, Dan wrote: > At 9:22 AM +0300 9/12/2011, Henrik K wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 04:11:07PM -0400, Dan wrote: >>> >>> At 11:40 PM +0200 9/7/2011, Luca Gibelli wrote: >>> >Traffic is around 5TB/month on each mirror. >>> >>> Short of a paid service, which I doubt any of us want, few have such >>> bandwidth available to donate. >> >> First of all, I think this whole thread is overreacting. I seriously >> doubt the mirror capacity is at maximum. > > Noone has suggested "maximum". The issue is that the mirrors are so > overloaded that it's often taking freshclam an excessive amount of time > to do its thing, because of the time-outs / connection failures. No big > deal if it's the update run in the background. But if it's on-demand > update preceding a user-driven scan, it's making the user sit there, > twiddling its thumbs, for up to a minute or two. > > Luca's response to the problem is that more mirror capacity is needed. > Hence the discussion of alternatives... > >> Anyways, 5TB comes at 2MB/s average, which is not that much. I can do it >> with my $15 OVH/Kimsufi box and so do probably thousands of others. > > Perhaps, where you live. Here, in the good'ole USofA, if I set up a > server to feed 170 GB/day, my ISP would shut me down and bill me big. > HERE HERE!
My ISP is pretty cool about letting users do what they want. However, if I started moving 170GB / day they would definitely be chasing me down to have a chat. :-) When they start offering inexpensive 10Mbit links to the net, a mirror would be an option, but not right now. -- Sincerely, Nathan Gibbs Systems Administrator Christ Media http://www.cmpublishers.com
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