Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 13:55:16 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please help spread the CVSup mirror load more evenly Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001241353540.315-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <200001241820.LAA04735@harmony.village.org>
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On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Warner Losh wrote: > Agreed. The making lots of connections was a bad idea. However, I've > rarely seen low latency and low bandwidth go together. I've also > problems connecting accross high loss links more often. Sure, it is a > statistical argument. > > I still think that the n connections wouldn't be that expensive. The > cost, iirc, of a connection that drops is very low. I can certainly > see enough problems with it to encourage jdp to not implement it, > despite being the person that proposed it... That's the precise reason I suggested a system that used no probing, had feedback, and forced shared load in spite of user misconfiguration. Got shouted down. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD, chuckr@picnic.mat.net | electronics, communications, and signal processing. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up fictitious words in the dictionary. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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