From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 30 18:10:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA08128 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 30 Jul 1998 18:10:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA08108 for ; Thu, 30 Jul 1998 18:10:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA01022; Fri, 31 Jul 1998 10:40:16 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id KAA09806; Fri, 31 Jul 1998 10:40:14 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980731104014.F7830@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 10:40:14 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Trans Vans , FreeBSD Questions List Cc: DefCon Mailing List Subject: Re: 417Gigs in 24hrs References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Trans Vans on Thu, Jul 30, 1998 at 05:25:40PM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 30 July 1998 at 17:25:40 -0400, Trans Vans wrote: > Hi All ! > > Walnut Creek CDRom (ftp.cdrom.com) has set up a new record. > 417Gigs per 24 hours. You can find it at: > http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/980730/crl_networ_1.html > > Now check my math: > > 417G / 24hr = 17.375G / 1hr > 17.35G / 60 = 0.289G / 1 minute = (289MB / minute) > 289MB / minute = 4.81MB / sec > > Now this is assuming that the information is at a steady flow at > this rate all day long, plus the network conditions have to be near > perfect during this 24 period. Do these numbers make sense or are they a > bit optimistic ? (It could be that I suck at math =:) Well, the numbers are correct, but the assumption that it's a steady flow isn't. You're bound to have some fluctuation. > On a happier note, the previous "campion" was M$ with 350G / per > day. The only difference was that they used 40 servers to achieve this, > while Walnut Creek used only one =:) Well, in fact the 417 GB is just the current new record. wcarchive has had several records above 350 GB, and we can expect that it will soon beat the current one. David Greenman publishes them from time to time in FreeBSD-chat. For example, a week ago we had 387 GB. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message