Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 07:55:12 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Lars Eggert <lars.eggert@nokia.com> Cc: "stable@freebsd.org" <stable@freebsd.org>, Julian Stacey <jhs@berklix.org> Subject: Re: more automated fetch of ISO-IMAGES & ports Message-ID: <20090407145512.1EC781CC50@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:55:20 %2B0300." <24269939-A622-44A6-9F9C-F816E03BE31F@nokia.com>
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> From: Lars Eggert <lars.eggert@nokia.com> > Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 15:55:20 +0300 > Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > > On 2009-4-7, at 14:21, Julian Stacey wrote: > > Perhaps some SOC student might like to develop some extension to > > fetch, or a new tool to intelligently save net bandwidth & human > > time (if not this year if SOC bids are in, then next) : > > Intelligently & automatically sniff fetch list to see where > > stuff is, measure the bandwidth, perhaps on a preliminary > > README, & automatically decide where to fetch from. > > & as 2nd stage, give up & try elsewhere if the server > > connection gets too bad. > > Use BitTorrent for all file distribution, it does all that. Yes, I'm > half serious. Why only half? I have pulled FreeBSD ISOs via torrent and it was stunning to see the performance. The system I was loading it to had (at the time) only a fastE (100Mbps), but it loaded at a steady 90+ Mbps and spent a lot of time above 95M. Now that I am connected from that system at 1000M, I should see how it does. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751
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