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Date:      Fri, 2 Nov 2012 19:50:11 +0400
From:      Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@amdmi3.ru>
To:        Emanuel Haupt <ehaupt@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        bf1783@gmail.com, svn-ports-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-ports-all@FreeBSD.org, "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com>, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r306755 - head/Mk
Message-ID:  <20121102155011.GA38558@hades.panopticon>
In-Reply-To: <20121101104217.3a55a2e749cc3c464a934a32@FreeBSD.org>
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* Emanuel Haupt (ehaupt@FreeBSD.org) wrote:

> > > > >> Dmitry and Pav went to some trouble to sort this list so that
> > > > >> those mirrors resulting in faster downloads for a majority of
> > > > >> users were placed first.  Have you verified that an
> > > > >> alphabetical sort won't result in slower average downloads for
> > > > >> many users?
> > > > >
> > > > > I was not aware of that. I just noticed that the list was
> > > > > somewhat outdated.
> > > > >
> > > > > A site that's fast for you might not be fast for someone else
> > > > > due to the geographical location so I am not sure what criteria
> > > > > was used to determine which one was better than others.
> > > > >
> > > > > One can always use MASTER_SORT to priorize some sites.
> > > > 
> > > > Yes, of course -- but here we are concerned with the average
> > > > speeds using default settings, for the largest number of users.
> > > > We can't provide a fixed ordering that works well for everyone,
> > > > but the heuristics Dmitry used last time are mentioned throughout
> > > > the thread starting with:
> > > > 
> > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2009-September/056783.html
> > > 
> > > Interesting stats. Thanks for finding that post.
> > > 
> > > I've restored the previous sort order for now.
> > 
> > Heh, it feels nice when something you've done years ago and have long
> > forgotten is brought up suddenly :)
> > 
> > Well, if the SF mirror list should be updated, I may run speed test
> > again - I happen to still have the scripts (and I've fixed broken
> > link from the above mentioned post).
> 
> Do you still happen to have the script you used back then?

Yes.  The simple script to test speed and mirror availability is here:

http://people.freebsd.org/~amdmi3/sf-speed.sh

(should be updated with recent and full mirror list)

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