From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 6 19:00:54 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D36DF16AD43 for ; Fri, 6 Aug 2004 19:00:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBCD343D2F for ; Fri, 6 Aug 2004 19:00:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id i76J0ao12992; Fri, 6 Aug 2004 15:00:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200408061900.i76J0ao12992@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: danm@prime.gushi.org (Dan Mahoney, System Admin) Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 15:00:36 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20040806012425.Y99504@prime.gushi.org> from "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" at Aug 06, 2004 01:28:04 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVS Questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 19:00:54 -0000 > > I was contemplating banging together a quick script to find the fastest > CVS mirrors which essentially tries to retrieve a small distribution from > all the available CVS servers. Does this seem like the type of thing that > would be well-recieved into the base-distro or ports? Or would it simply > be seen as putting extra load on the CVS servers? The problem is that the response you would get would be only valid for where you are running the script. Every host in the world would get different results, because they would have different conditions and connections. Having one person running something like that wouldn't put much load on anything, but, if everyone in FreeBSD land fired something like that up everytime they were to download stuff, it was add unnecessary load. > An optional thing I would be interested in putting in this is the ability > to disfavor any server which was close to its access limit. Is there any > support in the protocol for knowing which user out of how many you are? > > -Dan Mahoney > > -- > > Hate fedora with a white hot burning passion right now though ... damn thing is Linux-XP(tm) > > -Bill Nolan > 2/24/04 > > --------Dan Mahoney-------- > Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek > Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC > ICQ: 13735144 AIM: LarpGM > Site: http://www.gushi.org > --------------------------- >