Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 10:43:39 -0800 (PST) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Please help spread the CVSup mirror load more evenly Message-ID: <XFMail.000121104339.jdp@polstra.com>
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This is another in my series of occasional nags to try to get people
to use some of the less heavily loaded CVSup mirrors. In the US
alone, we have 8 mirror sites now, named (duh) cvsup[1-8].FreeBSD.org.
The newest, cvsup8, is a very high-capacity and well-connected site,
yet hardly anybody is using it. Please give it a try!
You can find the full list of mirrors worldwide at:
http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/mirrors-cvsup.html
Remember, the mirrors are equivalent in the sense that they get
their updates from the master server at the same intervals (hourly).
There is nothing "better" about the lower-numbered mirrors, and they
don't get their updates any sooner or more reliably. In fact, the
higher-numbered mirrors often have faster hardware simply because
they're newer. Also, in particular, there's nothing special about
cvsup.FreeBSD.org -- it's simply an alias for cvsup1 and it gets its
updates the same way at the same intervals from the same master server
as all the other mirrors.
To choose a mirror site, try pinging the mirrors in your country.
Pick one with a low packet loss rate. The round trip time doesn't
matter very much as long as it doesn't undergo wild variations.
Second, pick a site that's not too heavily loaded. If your update
_ever_ fails because the server is too busy, then you should try a
different mirror -- because there are many mirrors that aren't even
close to their full loads even at the busiest of times.
Thanks for your cooperation.
John
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John Polstra jdp@polstra.com
John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA
"Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa
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