Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 13:52:10 +0200 From: Jesper Skriver <jesper@skriver.dk> To: jason andrade <jason@dstc.edu.au> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG, releng@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.4-RELEASE in 12 hours Message-ID: <20010918135210.I57209@skriver.dk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.20.0109182115370.29054-100000@azure.dstc.edu.au>; from jason@dstc.edu.au on Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 09:24:41PM %2B1000 References: <20010918091117.E45BC3808@overcee.netplex.com.au> <Pine.OSF.4.20.0109182115370.29054-100000@azure.dstc.edu.au>
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On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 09:24:41PM +1000, jason andrade wrote: > > > > > > 4.4-RELEASE should be available from ftp-master.FreeBSD.org within > > > > > the next 12 hours. As a reminder, this will be a rather large release > > hmm. well, it's been about 10 hours now and i haven't seen anything appearing > yet, so i'm assuming this is going to be towards the latter part of those 12 > hours :-) > > > > > when it's on ftp-master, how much delay will there be before it makes > > > > it to ftp.freebsd.org and other mirrors ? > > > > > > ftp.freebsd.org mirrors from ftp-master every 6 hours, but I guess > > > it probably takes some hours to transfer the data from ftp-master > > > to ftp > > i guess my point was once it starts appearing everyone will swamp ftp.freebsd.org > and/or the other main mirrors.. 6 hours seems reasonable. do you guys have an > estimate on how long it takes to mirror a release ? Not really, when packages was transferred for one of the RC's the transfer rate was approx 150 kB/s > more out of curiousity - it's sometimes taken 2-3 days to get a single > ISO image from the previous ftp.freebsd.org for me. i estimate a > full 4.4 release will take approximately a week to get mirrored into > australia - so expect to see a very large number of australian users > hitting your site in denmark, via the USA's network.. Probably, shouldn't be a problem. > > I've seen a couple of mirrors that were running 3 or 4 rsyncs in > > parallel on the same file... each one corrupting the work that the > > others were doing and causing the file to be trashed and start all > > over again next time around etc. > > i don't believe *any* mirror should have more than one rsync or cvsup > or ftp connection on a regular basis (two perhaps, for short term > stuff, e.g a fetch is happening and one session is being used to ls > or generate listings) to ftp-master as this provides for inequity of > access to all mirrors. Agree, I think Peter was referring to the fact that unless you have locking, you might start a new rsync from cron before the first finishes. > > Many people seem to be having more success with cvsup vs. rsync -z > > on the large .iso files. > > i would recommend turning off compression support myself, since i've > found it has little benefit except on archives of mainly text files > and causes more trouble than its worth on the server and the client > end. Same here. /Jesper -- Jesper Skriver, jesper(at)skriver(dot)dk - CCIE #5456 Work: Network manager @ AS3292 (Tele Danmark DataNetworks) Private: FreeBSD committer @ AS2109 (A much smaller network ;-) One Unix to rule them all, One Resolver to find them, One IP to bring them all and in the zone to bind them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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