Hi stable@ people,
Idea for a SOC or other development:
Not all ftp sites carry betas (understandably), that raises an inefficiency
of human net resources also seen similarly on ports/ , eg:
I tried to download 7.2-BETA to test, Not on local
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
On 2009-4-7, at 15:59, Andrei Kolu wrote:
What about this:
# cd /usr/ports/sysutils/fastest_cvsup make install clean rehash
# fastest_cvsup -c us,ee,ru,eu,uk,de,no,se
RTT != throughput, and not all files are available via cvsup
Lars
Hi stable@ people,
Ref my:
Found manually on
ftp://ftp.uk.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/7.2
but slow at 60 KB/s
Faster @ 100K from USA
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/7.2
but I'd feel guilty loading main site
Lars Eggert wrote:
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
On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Julian Stacey wrote:
Some servers for ports/ fetch are also incredibly slow, but fetch will
hang in there trying, even if another site lower in the list might
be nearer /or faster.
There is a tool called fastest_sites that uses round trip for the tcp
hanshake wich is a
On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Julian Stacey wrote:
Hi stable@ people,
Ref my:
Found manually on
ftp://ftp.uk.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/7.2
but slow at 60 KB/s
Faster @ 100K from USA
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/7.2
but
From: Lars Eggert lars.egg...@nokia.com
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 15:55:20 +0300
Sender: owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org
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
On 2009-4-7, at 17:55, Kevin Oberman wrote:
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.
Half, because getting a BitTorrent infrastructure in place for the
BitTorrent is NOT always a good solution .
I tried it on an approximately 4.5 Giga Bytes iso which came out to be
unusable because
- direct download is taken minimum 12 hours with a 1024 kilo bits per second
down load speed ,
in average 18 hours from Turkey .
- BitTorrent download is reaching
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 11:13:25 -0400
From: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk m.e.sanlit...@gmail.com
Sender: owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org
BitTorrent is NOT always a good solution .
I tried it on an approximately 4.5 Giga Bytes iso which came out to be
unusable because
- direct download is
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