From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 17 20:57:51 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D7EFD74 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2012 20:57:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cpghost@cordula.ws) Received: from mail-ie0-f182.google.com (mail-ie0-f182.google.com [209.85.223.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FB2F8FC0A for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2012 20:57:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f182.google.com with SMTP id k10so16431913iea.13 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:57:50 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-originating-ip:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:content-type:x-gm-message-state; bh=w5qaSld0H9GuNfh9wtipFjdFQtkJ6O+A4GDmEpMf3mo=; b=IFn45G1mYiagZHBE/a5/J9G3HAxYBJPYSE9BzNrwiQL6ExfqkFZGO1eSCEBLIoDVZO ooOpmQ2iOLToIL74tTMVl1RSevuXf1LrgxjUcz27CfXYd9cN/oKMoA499TliPVRjz9pg doPTc5RCUq8jkER7x6AMa0pCtyp40U+CBDOmSZaGHHguqFTeivuyXG12EpSl5pRy5MXj Zvd5Gpcgvrt/RQBLHGSdKSFWWSBB4YDYnqwxNSAVUhi2a1HMAON4Mt55OjO7WPCfmP6c 7Ly3xfRAZHuQJOZc3/srGzuBbLSVZkixVMRorbPaw3fEi6+3QWuoOCB7tVOZXOzV7yY1 p6Yg== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.50.106.227 with SMTP id gx3mr2937124igb.10.1350507469739; Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:57:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.64.49.67 with HTTP; Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:57:49 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [93.221.176.159] In-Reply-To: <20121015173418.GA27414@hemlock.hydra> References: <20121015173418.GA27414@hemlock.hydra> Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 22:57:49 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: a metric for number of users From: "C. P. Ghost" To: FreeBSD Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnGpg4dqDM8hkwXWyGoXt230HeLH4TDlhqy5LzWL5aJqvvm0A87MovZSh6BaZk0c0Ydi1bC X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 20:57:51 -0000 On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > Is there some way I could get the number of unique IPs hitting FreeBSD > servers for software updates? I'm curious about the direct comparison of > numbers between FreeBSD, Ubuntu, Fedora, and SUSE for this metric. You could ask for this, but beware of drawing wrong conclusions. Where I'm currently working, we're fetching sources, ports and distfiles only once, rebuild, test, and then mirror internally to a couple of 10k machines. And I'm sure we're not alone doing this: it's certainly not such an uncommon scenario out there. > Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/