Hi,
On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Sunday 09 October 2005 11:51, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
Even more: if you all would start your YOU at the same time, it can
be very efficient because the second YOU'er already hits a buffer
cache match (and so on).
So let's try: please as many as possible of the readers here (but
nowhere else ;-)) change their YOU and/or YaST installation source to
ftp4, and let the 0 minute of each full hour be the moment to trigger
installation or update.
Ummm... I'm not sure if you're kidding or not. You don't _really_ want
us all to synchronize our access to your server, do you?
I am not kidding. The synchronizing effort at http://ftp.gwdg.de for
the i386 ISOs (implemented by Christoph Thiel at download.opensuse.org)
is a great push. OK, all non-SUSE-using customers of ftp.gwdg.de are
paying tax for this, but SUSE had all the last (10? 9? Maybe only 8)
years more then 2/3 of the ftp.gwdg.de output, and now for a hopefully
limited time it is more then 9/10. I consider this a service effort.
If we would achieve this synchronous action (remember: "SUSE-10.0 YOU
time at ftp4 is minute 0 of every hour"), I see a good chance for a major
improvement in service without more stress to the server.
If it happens, I simply have to watch that the outgoing sum of ftp + ftp4
does not exceed our bandwidth reserve. Not an easy task. ;-))
Cheers -e
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Eberhard Moenkeberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED])
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