On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 1:06 AM, Giovanni Tirloni <gtirl...@sysdroid.com> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Khyron <khyron4...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I don't know if it is just me, but I often experience periods of extreme >> slowness >> when loading sections of www.opensolaris.org/hub.opensolaris.org. I would >> imagine >> that others have experienced this as well. > > Yes. I've experienced that myself but my ISP was having some trouble with > international routing so I did not investigate any further and assumed it > would fix itself later. But the slowness has been ongoing for the last week > or so. > >> >> I can't help but wonder how many people have left the site in frustration >> due to the >> slow connection speeds. Is there any effort afoot to deal with this >> performance >> situation? Can I offer any assistance, even to the administrators, to >> help isolate and >> identify the problem? > > CC'ed website-discuss which can perhaps provide some input on this. > >> >> I know it aggravates me, and slows down my interaction with >> the site, just as I am now increasing my involvement with the OpenSolaris >> project. >> Searching in particular is bit painful. > > First, thanks for your interest in the OpenSolaris project. > > I've a question for the website administrators: are there any plans to set > up a mirror infrastructure for the OpenSolaris website and FTP/download > servers ? How would a 3rd-party (non-Oracle) go for helping improve this ? > We make heavy use of OpenSolaris and I might get my management into > sponsoring bandwidth and cpu-cycles. > > -- > Giovanni
Correct me, if I am wrong. But if I understood it correctly, Ben Rockwood and Al Hopper offered such a solution several times (the wizards who are running genunix.org). But Sun DID NOT WANT THAT. So, all this is nothing new. And the deciders know about it. But they decided otherwise (for reasons only known to themselves). %martin _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list website-discuss@opensolaris.org
