From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 21 13:26:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ind.alcatel.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6298A1542B for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 13:26:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com (mailhub [198.206.181.70]) by ind.alcatel.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (ind.alcatel.com 3.0 [OUT])) with SMTP id NAA19256; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 13:25:18 -0800 (PST) X-Origination-Site: Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id NAA05030; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 13:25:18 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn1.utah.xylan.com [198.206.184.237]) by omni.xylan.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (Xylan engr [SPOOL])) with ESMTP id NAA29882; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 13:23:56 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3888CFC4.E130D88D@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 14:29:40 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Polstra Cc: joe@pavilion.net, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Please help spread the CVSup mirror load more evenly References: <20000121190729.C58872@florence.pavilion.net> <200001211911.LAA11701@vashon.polstra.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Polstra wrote: > > > Can you make cvsup accept multiple servers to try in it's configuration > > file? > > I'll add that to the to-do list. A nice heuristic that attempts to minimize latency and maximize throughput would be a nice feature to have. For extra credit, reverse entropy as well. Seriously, attempting to connect to a list of servers using record route and minimizing the latency and/or hop count would be a great little feature to add. It would be a great feature to package into a library. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message