Re: Please help spread the CVSup mirror load more evenly

[Wes Peters]

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
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