Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 23:15:04 +1000 (EST) From: jason andrade <jason@dstc.edu.au> To: "Gregory (Grisha) Trubetskoy" <grisha@verio.net> Cc: hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The 4.4 FTP Release Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.20.0109202312070.29054-100000@azure.dstc.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0109200902250.14500-100000@localhost>
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On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Gregory (Grisha) Trubetskoy wrote: > > I'm curious why 4.4 release generated so much bandwidth - the 4.3 wasn't > nearly as spectacular - ftp2 did may be 30Mb at peaks. With 4.4 (after I > upped the membufs) it's been steady 99Mbps and it only eased off beetween > 5am and 9am EDT. 4.4 does have some historical significance. a number of people will upgrade and probably stay at 4.4 for quite a while through inertia based on that. there was also a perception among people i talked to that 4.3 was a relatively `minor' upgrade and some good stuff was being pushed back to 4.4's release. > Another theory is that suddenly more people want to install FreeBSD. :-) that's very likely - i think the opensource OS distros in general are becoming a lot more popular. > Do other mirror operators think this release was unusually bandwidth > intensive? significantly more than 4.3 - this time there was also slightly better co-ordination in that mirrors had access to ftp-master and there was some warning and pre-fetch happening before a full announce/ftp.freebsd.org was ready. regards, -jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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