From owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 10 09:43:34 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A44E537B401 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:43:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC19943FAF for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:43:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU) Received: from electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (kensmith@localhost [127.0.0.1]) h5AGhSbr004022; Tue, 10 Jun 2003 12:43:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from kensmith@localhost) by electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h5AGhSRH004021; Tue, 10 Jun 2003 12:43:28 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 12:43:28 -0400 From: Ken Smith To: Oliver Fromme Message-ID: <20030610164328.GD2099@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> References: <20030610160605.GB2099@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> <200306101624.h5AGO6Ol099574@lurza.secnetix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200306101624.h5AGO6Ol099574@lurza.secnetix.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org cc: Ken Smith Subject: Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 5.1 Released! X-BeenThere: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Distributions Hubs: mail sup ftp List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 16:43:34 -0000 On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 06:24:06PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > On the other hand -- When someone from the RE team posts > a message to hubs@ like "5.1 for i386 available now!", > I guess many people will start their sync jobs immediately. > That's already some kind of "push". So there's the same > load situation, except everyone has started the thing > manually, instead of having it initiated automatically. Yup. But that's arguably a "special case". If you can fold the special case into what you use for day-to-day stuff that's great. But sometimes it's best to design the system for the day-to-day stuff and leave the special cases as special cases. Depends on how often the special cases come along. > If the load is really a serious problem, then the "push" > notifications can be sent out with a certain delay between > them. I'm sure it can be done. It's all software. You can make it do anything you want. :-) -- Ken Smith - From there to here, from here to | kensmith@cse.buffalo.edu there, funny things are everywhere. | - Theodore Geisel |