From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Feb 21 11:10:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA14035 for chat-outgoing; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 11:10:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from crh.cl.msu.edu (crh.cl.msu.edu [35.8.1.24]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA14023 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 11:10:45 -0800 (PST) Received: (from henrich@localhost) by crh.cl.msu.edu (8.8.5/8.8.4) id OAA09912; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 14:10:36 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 14:10:36 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Henrich Message-Id: <199702211910.OAA09912@crh.cl.msu.edu> To: dg@root.com, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new all-time traffic record on wcarchive Newsgroups: lists.freebsd.chat References: <5ekk9t$2sd$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #1 (NOV) Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In lists.freebsd.chat you write: >>On Fri, 21 Feb 1997, David Greenman wrote: >> >>> > We set a new all-time one day traffic record on wcarchive yesterday. The >>> >stats are attached. Note that the numbers would have been even higher (by >>> >about 4GB) had a drive not failed and killed the machine an hour before the >>> >log rotation/stats generation. >>> >>> Other miscellaneous info: The old record was 115GB and was set on August >>> 10th, 1996. This new record of 142.8GB beats out the old one by nearly 25%. >> >>Does the setting of this record happen to correspond to crl fixing some >>of its links (I refer to a short discussion ~week ago), or was it the >>release of FreeBSD 2.1.7, or was it...??? > Well, CRL really doesn't have anything they need to "fix", but they have >done a number of things to work around the congestion problem that MCI is >having at the PB-NAP. They've tried to split the traffic between MAE-west >and PB-NAP for one. I also found out last night that another major provider >is now backhauling all of their MCI traffic to MAE-east in an attempt to steer >clear of the problem. The combination of providers now avoiding MCI at PB-NAP, >and CRL's attempts to better distribute the traffic are two of the main >reasons why we set a new record. ...of course the FreeBSD 2.1.7 release helped >out a bunch, too. :-) Course those changes have made cdrom.com unusable for a large portion of the state of Michigan. We're getting a few bytes/sec transfer rates here (and im all DS3 to Mae-East at least. Oh well. I've finally resorted to doing the ftp via a 256k link I have into Sprint. Its clipping along quite nicely at the moment. -Crh -- Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@msu.edu http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich