From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 21 11: 7:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from florence.pavilion.net (florence.pavilion.net [212.74.0.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9AB914FB7 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 11:07:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joe@florence.pavilion.net) Received: (from joe@localhost) by florence.pavilion.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) id TAA03968; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 19:07:29 GMT (envelope-from joe) Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 19:07:29 +0000 From: Josef Karthauser To: John Polstra Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please help spread the CVSup mirror load more evenly Message-ID: <20000121190729.C58872@florence.pavilion.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: X-NCC-RegID: uk.pavilion Organisation: Pavilion Internet plc, Lees House, 21-23 Dyke Road, Brighton, England Phone: +44-845-333-5000 Fax: +44-845-333-5001 Mobile: +44-403-596893 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 10:43:39AM -0800, John Polstra wrote: > > 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 Can you make cvsup accept multiple servers to try in it's configuration file? Joe -- Josef Karthauser FreeBSD: Take the red pill and we'll show you just how Technical Manager deep the rabbit hole goes. (http://www.uk.freebsd.org) Pavilion Internet plc. [joe@pavilion.net, joe@freebsd.org, joe@tao.org.uk] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message