Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 14:27:01 -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.4.21.0001241421580.315-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <200001241916.MAA05164@harmony.village.org>
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On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001241405300.315-100000@picnic.mat.net> Chuck Robey writes: > : Oh. If that's a problem, it would be a fatal problem (would be for me, > : sometimes). > > It used to be a big problem. When cvsup was first getting mirrors, > some seemed to update every 15 minutes, while others updated what > seemed like every two days. A big part of the problem was contention > at the main cvsup server. Since cvsup has gone to cvsup-master this > problem has all but disappeared. The mirrors all have good > connectivity and can get updates on a timely basis. [some deletions] > For people updating 2x a day or less often, I doubt that switching > between responding cvsup servers would cause great pain, or any > effects at all. > > It is a hard problem to get right all the time.... Well, I really hate the idea of lots of network pinging, both because it's not reliable for network probing, not reliable for machine load probing, and causes more congestion, so I wanted a way to force loadsharing, one that allowed some feedback so that real backups could be adjusted to. OTOH, there's no way I will try to fight folks with elephantine memories. I even began looking at Modula-3, seeing if I could offer a diff set to jdp. You know what I realized, and (for some reason) no one in my memory has ever written: modula-3, in features, looks a lot like Java. It's not a stylistic descendant of C like Java is, but featurewise, it is. > > 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
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