Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 13:51:46 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, joe@pavilion.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please help spread the CVSup mirror load more evenly Message-ID: <v0422080ab4b1fb48cb8a@[195.238.1.121]> In-Reply-To: <200001212207.RAA02163@whizzo.transsys.com> References: <XFMail.000121104339.jdp@polstra.com> <20000121190729.C58872@florence.pavilion.net> <200001211911.LAA11701@vashon.polstra.com> <3888CFC4.E130D88D@softweyr.com> <200001212207.RAA02163@whizzo.transsys.com>
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At 5:07 PM -0500 2000/1/21, Louis A. Mamakos wrote: > As John mentioned earlier, what your probably most interested in is > patch quality (e.g., minimum packet loss) first and latency second as > far as network characteristics are concerned. Simply measure them if > you choose rather than trying to understand why the latency is what is. > Trying to predict path quality based on observed topology is hard to > do in an automated fashion. Sure, you can employ some simply heuristics > as a human (e.g., don't go through MAE-EAST - it sucks there) and the > occasional traceroute will reduce your candidate list of servers to a > likely set which won't suck and are in the same hemisphere. That's fine. But we can at least automate this simple 20%, can't we? -- These are my opinions and should not be taken as official Skynet policy _________________________________________________________________________ |o| Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> Belgacom Skynet NV/SA |o| |o| Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin Rue Col. Bourg, 124 |o| |o| Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/726.93.11 B-1140 Brussels |o| |o| http://www.skynet.be Belgium |o| \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Unix is like a wigwam -- no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside. Unix is very user-friendly. It's just picky who its friends are. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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