From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 24 5:53: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from trinity.skynet.be (trinity.skynet.be [195.238.2.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E332F14E91 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 05:52:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from blk@skynet.be) Received: from [195.238.1.121] (brad.techos.skynet.be [195.238.1.121]) by trinity.skynet.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07B9612450; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 14:52:26 +0100 (MET) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@foxbert.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200001212207.RAA02163@whizzo.transsys.com> References: <20000121190729.C58872@florence.pavilion.net> <200001211911.LAA11701@vashon.polstra.com> <3888CFC4.E130D88D@softweyr.com> <200001212207.RAA02163@whizzo.transsys.com> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 13:51:46 +0100 To: "Louis A. Mamakos" , Wes Peters From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: Please help spread the CVSup mirror load more evenly Cc: John Polstra , joe@pavilion.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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, 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