From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 24 11:25: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1761157C3 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:24:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA90380; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 14:06:00 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 14:06:00 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey To: Warner Losh Cc: Brad Knowles , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please help spread the CVSup mirror load more evenly In-Reply-To: <200001241903.MAA05087@harmony.village.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Warner Losh wrote: > In message Chuck Robey writes: > : 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. > > One reason I think that you've been shouted down (and me too, since I > had similar ideas) is that people in the past have had problems with > different cvsup servers being at different points in time and have > been screwed to som eextent or another by this time skew. Oh. If that's a problem, it would be a fatal problem (would be for me, sometimes). > > There is a large resistance to automatically switching cvsup servers. > > It is my perception that the cvsup servers are much better now than > they were even 6 months ago (well, cvsup{1,2} do seem to be much more > heavily used than 6,7,8). > > > Warner > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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