From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 23 5:28:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (dynamic-27.max4-du-ws.dialnetwork.pavilion.co.uk [212.74.9.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C05BC15099; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 05:28:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA36877; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 13:03:21 GMT (envelope-from brian@lan.awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost.lan.Awfulhak.org [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA01359; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 13:03:19 GMT (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200001231303.NAA01359@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.0 09/18/1999 To: Warner Losh Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, Chuck Robey , current@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: Please help spread the CVSup mirror load more evenly In-Reply-To: Message from Warner Losh of "Fri, 21 Jan 2000 22:00:05 MST." <200001220500.WAA17674@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 13:03:19 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > In message <20000121180914.C44132@dragon.nuxi.com> "David O'Brien" writes: > : "load" on the mirror. Where "load" is either one of the connection > : slots, or actual kernel resource load if I have 20% packet loss and thus > : cause a lot of retransmissions to occur. > > Hmmm. A thought just occurred to me. There's no need to measure > these things. Lookup all the IP addresses. Do a non blocking > connection to each of these machines. First one to come back with the > REL16_1 response wins, and all the others get closed and you use that > one. I like this idea, except that some sort of consistency is required - ie, once I've started using cvsupX, I'd like to use it in preference to slightly better machines unless it stays bad for some configurable number of connections.... > Warner -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message