> From: Lars Eggert <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 15:55:20 +0300 > Sender: [email protected] > > On 2009-4-7, at 14:21, Julian Stacey wrote: > > Perhaps some SOC student might like to develop some extension to > > fetch, or a new tool to intelligently save net bandwidth & human > > time (if not this year if SOC bids are in, then next) : > > Intelligently & automatically sniff fetch list to see where > > stuff is, measure the bandwidth, perhaps on a preliminary > > README, & automatically decide where to fetch from. > > & as 2nd stage, give up & try elsewhere if the server > > connection gets too bad. > > Use BitTorrent for all file distribution, it does all that. Yes, I'm > half serious.
Why only half? I have pulled FreeBSD ISOs via torrent and it was stunning to see the performance. The system I was loading it to had (at the time) only a fastE (100Mbps), but it loaded at a steady 90+ Mbps and spent a lot of time above 95M. Now that I am connected from that system at 1000M, I should see how it does. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [email protected] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
