From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 21 14:13:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from sr14.nsw-remote.bigpond.net.au (sr14.nsw-remote.bigpond.net.au [24.192.3.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CBD41553B for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 14:13:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from areilly@nsw.bigpond.net.au) Received: from areilly.bpc-users.org (CPE-24-192-49-170.nsw.bigpond.net.au [24.192.49.170]) by sr14.nsw-remote.bigpond.net.au (Pro-8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA29613 for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 09:13:23 +1100 (EDT) Received: (qmail 39765 invoked by uid 1000); 21 Jan 2000 22:13:22 -0000 From: "Andrew Reilly" Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 09:13:21 +1100 To: Chuck Robey Cc: Warner Losh , John Polstra , joe@pavilion.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please help spread the CVSup mirror load more evenly Message-ID: <20000122091321.A45218@gurney.reilly.home> References: <200001212114.OAA14047@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 04:24:41PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: > 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. sh has random numbers. Spelled "jot -r". -- Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message