Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 13:42:43 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Sup! It's killing us! Please help! Message-ID: <29799.816385363@time.cdrom.com>
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OK, so maybe I'm being just a bit dramatic.. Nonetheless, the sup load on freefall, on top of the many tens of thousands of mail messages it does every week, is getting to be more than a bit of a drag on our development resources. Being behind WC's T1, which itself is behind BARRNET's already overloaded hub, also isn't doing us or our users any favors. I'd therefore like to put out a general call for backup sup servers. If we sup'd to 5 sites who in turn provided sup servers for 10 others, we'd have this problem licked and our sup users would be considerably happier to boot - it really won't take that much to significantly improve the situation. All we need are some fairly well-connected sites who have about 120MB or so of space to spare. What it takes to be a sup server: o T1 or better connectivity, depending on how many users you're willing to support. o About 120MB for a full source tree, itself kept up to date via sup from freefall. o A run of `supscan' once a night in cron. That's really it! Especially desirable would be any sites in Europe, Japan or Australia, where sup services are especially thin. Our current method of having everyone converge on freefall is clearly sub-optimial and it's not giving our users the service they deserve. Volunteers? Please? I'm more than happy to work with anyone in setting up the sup collections and supscan administration. It's not really that hard, and once it's done it basically runs itself. Thanks! Jordan
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