From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 6 18:55:55 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBF3216A69A for ; Fri, 6 Aug 2004 18:55:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (ns0.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A9F243D1F for ; Fri, 6 Aug 2004 18:55:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost [IPv6:::1]) i76ItoZA091985 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 6 Aug 2004 19:55:50 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost)id i76ItnjJ091983; Fri, 6 Aug 2004 19:55:49 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew) Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 19:55:49 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" Message-ID: <20040806185549.GB91576@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" , questions@freebsd.org References: <20040806012425.Y99504@prime.gushi.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="2B/JsCI69OhZNC5r" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040806012425.Y99504@prime.gushi.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Greylist: Message not sent from an IPv4 address, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.5.3 (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [0.0.0.0]); Fri, 06 Aug 2004 19:55:50 +0100 (BST) X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version devel-20040705, clamav-milter version 0.74a on smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.64 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVS Questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 18:55:56 -0000 --2B/JsCI69OhZNC5r Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 01:28:04AM -0400, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > I was contemplating banging together a quick script to find the fastest= =20 > CVS mirrors which essentially tries to retrieve a small distribution from= =20 > all the available CVS servers. Does this seem like the type of thing tha= t=20 > would be well-recieved into the base-distro or ports? Or would it simply= =20 > be seen as putting extra load on the CVS servers? What? Like /usr/ports/sysutils/fastest_cvsup/ ? You'ld be reinventing the wheel. =20 > An optional thing I would be interested in putting in this is the ability= =20 > to disfavor any server which was close to its access limit. Is there any= =20 > support in the protocol for knowing which user out of how many you are? Not so far as I know. However, a machine with too many active cvsup clients will tend to slow down quite significantly, so the 'find fastest server' type script above generally steers you towards the more lightly loaded servers. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK --2B/JsCI69OhZNC5r Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBE9Q1iD657aJF7eIRAmC+AKC4WXXDFnk8gSEookVsysLZ3/TXggCfUha6 MH3s1XTP/M3ZCrU8HRx0b68= =82UL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2B/JsCI69OhZNC5r--