From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 21 13:25:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47114154FD for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 13:25:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA55530; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 16:24:41 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 16:24:41 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey To: Warner Losh Cc: John Polstra , joe@pavilion.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please help spread the CVSup mirror load more evenly In-Reply-To: <200001212114.OAA14047@harmony.village.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Warner Losh wrote: > In message Chuck Robey writes: > : I would think using a fixed order would be a really bad thing, causing > : overload of the first server in line. Did I misunderstand you? How about > : doing a script (say in perl, it has random numbers) that randomly picks > : the server from a list? That way, the list could even be weighted, so as > : to allow for greater or lesser machine resources (like net access). > > That's one of the things I have to fix up. This script is good for > me, but bad for everyone. Enhancements like this would be a good > thing. Got time? I don't know perl. Darn. Yes, I will learn perl. Now. > > Warner > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD, chuckr@picnic.mat.net | electronics, communications, and signal processing. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up fictitious words in the dictionary. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message