On Monday, December 27, 2004, 12:46:19 PM, Landry wrote:
LW> Are folks taking advantage of the "wget" compression option before LW> downloading their rulebase updates? If the slow download speeds are a LW> bandwidth saturation issue on the Sniffer end, this would certainly cut down LW> on the bandwidth requirements on their end and increase the download times LW> for everyone. LW> Also, I've got to ask, if the downloads are happening "behind the scenes", LW> by an automated or triggered download, why the concern about speeds, as long LW> as your downloads are successful? From what I've seen in the logs, only about 5% of folks are taking advantage of gzip right now. Also, I did some incantations on the log (grep, awk, uniq etc) and came up with just under half of our customers downloading their rulebase between 1200 and 1300 today. That's between 2 and 3 times as many as should have done it ;-) -- so the backlog is explainable. This kind of thing happens for lots of reasons and there are a lot of ways to mitigate the problem. A big one on the list - certainly - is using the gzip capability. With only 5% of folks using this and average compression ratios well above 50% there is plenty of room to "make a big dent" in this. _M This E-Mail came from the Message Sniffer mailing list. For information and (un)subscription instructions go to http://www.sortmonster.com/MessageSniffer/Help/Help.html
