One common misconception is that cvsup(N+1).FreeBSD.org is somehow
less up-to-date than or not as good as cvsup(N).FreeBSD.org. That's
not the case at all -- the numbers mean nothing. For example, all 7
of the US mirror sites get their updates hourly from the same master
site. (So do
Mark Huizer wrote:
Huh what?
I have some trouble building the www site but I will work on that after
my holiday.
But the mirror is update every four hours at the moment. Should it be
every hour? No problem with me
Why not? I don't think it is that big a drain. Once it's up to date it's
up
John Polstra wrote:
...
One common misconception is that cvsup(N+1).FreeBSD.org is somehow
less up-to-date than or not as good as cvsup(N).FreeBSD.org. That's
not the case at all -- the numbers mean nothing. For example, all 7
of the US mirror sites get their updates hourly from the same
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Chad R. Larson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
John, do you have usage statistics broken out for each server?
I don't, but I wish I did. It would be an interesting project for
somebody to write tools that could analyze the cvsupd log files to get
information like that.
As I recall, John Polstra wrote:
In the US, cvsup[1-3] are very busy; clients get turned away from them
on a regular basis because they are already at their limit. The other
4 mirrors are practically idle in comparison. These are all screaming
fast, well-connected, well-maintained mirrors.
As I recall, John Polstra wrote:
In the US, cvsup[1-3] are very busy; clients get turned away from them
on a regular basis because they are already at their limit. The other
4 mirrors are practically idle in comparison. These are all screaming
fast, well-connected, well-maintained
We've added quite a few new CVSup mirror sites this year. I thought
it might be a good idea to list them, in the hope that some of you
would help spread the load by switching to them for your CVSup
updates.
One common misconception is that cvsup(N+1).FreeBSD.org is somehow
less up-to-date than
