Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:09:39 -0400 From: Adam McDougall <mcdouga9@egr.msu.edu> To: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> Cc: freebsd-hubs <freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: TLD cvsup mirrors Message-ID: <4A355903.3040408@egr.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <1244913371.55746.12.camel@neo.cse.buffalo.edu>
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Ken Smith wrote: > I'm looking for several new cvsup mirrors for the top level domain > (cvsup*.freebsd.org). My preference is to "promote" sites that have > been working for a while as sites within a country code that feel they > can take on more traffic. At this point most of the TLD cvsup servers > are in the US (and not to put too fine a point on it a depressing number > are in buffalo.edu because I "temporarily" took over for another server > that went AWOL and I'm just now getting around to looking for a real > replacement...) so sites in other countries are definitely encouraged to > make an offer. I'd like to diversify it a bit if possible. > > Just to give you a feel for what you'd be getting into... Some of these > sites currently handle as many as 1000 to 2000 connects/day. From my > experiences if you want to support that many connects/day in a > reasonable fashion it takes a machine that can handle 20 to 30 > concurrent connections. To do that it helps to have learned a few > tricks like making sure to turn off atime on the filesystem the > repository is in, and bumping up kern.maxvnodes to encourage more file > caching. > > Thanks. > > I'd be happy to take on more cvsupd clients if you want, lately I've been getting around 550 working clients per day and it feels like nothing (cvsup15.freebsd.org). I have 20G of ram in the system and lately a lot of the cvsup data seems to get cached. Plenty of CPU to go around too. What would you recommend for kern.maxvnodes? Thankshome | help
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