Sorry Guy, I totally forgot about this. Good work. > the question is - when deciding what to keep mirrorins and which > mirrors to drop - should we optimized for ammount of data transfered (thus > favouring users with heavy downloads) or number of people making transfers > (thus favoring mirrors that are used by more users).
For small downloads in disparate areas, mirrors abroad are fine as long as there's a critical mass of them (so you can find a server whose user limit isn't peaking). Complete mirrors are a privilege left for the rich, as we learnt from experience, trying to maintain lots of "official mirrors". OTOH, it's very nice to have an IIX mirror to get big stuff fast. --> I'm for prefering heavy downloads Just remember folks -- if we're an official mirror of something and we decide to castrate it, I'll notify the project that we no longer offer an "official mirror". (CAN FILTER means whether there's anything more we can filter) > cpan - 1,350,036KB (1.3GB) OFFICIAL: Yes. FILTERING: No. CAN FILTER: No. > debian - 21,459,184 (21GB) > debian-Non-US - 319,784 (0.3GB) OFFICIAL?: Yes. Secondary mirror (= we're allowed to filter for space restrictions) Are we on Woody's official boot disk, by any chance? FILTERING: only i386, no ISOs CAN FILTER: deb sources (can someone produce statistics on the amount of .tar.gz's fetched from the Debian directory?) > gnu - 4,708,192 (4.7GB) OFFICIAL: No. (HUJI is official in Israel) FILTERING: No. CAN FILTER: No. Hardly used. Not without hard feelings, GNU's got to go. (We're not even an official mirror) > kde - 7,294,992 (7.2GB) OFFICIAL: Yes. Secondary (no snapshots). FILTERING: Yes. No snapshots. No old minor versions. No old betas. CAN FILTER: No. > kernel.org - 9,581,616 (9.5GB) OFFICIAL: Yes FILTER: only gziped CAN FILTER: No, unless we don't want to be official mirror. Then we can stop mirroring 2.0.*, 2.5.* etc. > loki - 3,246,244 (3.2GB) OFFICIAL: Not any more. I added this cause I thought games were both heavy downloads and cool. We were an official mirror. Since then, Loki collapsed. Is anyone actually using this mirror? > slackware - 673,936 (0.6GB) OFFICIAL: No. It has quite a fan-base on #iglu. People are generally okay with ISOs, as long as we have the latest ones and fast.
