Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 15:01:49 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sup! It's killing us! Please help! Message-ID: <199511142301.PAA28765@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <29799.816385363@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Nov 14, 95 01:42:43 pm
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I volunteer ref.. of course it's behind the same BARRnet hub, but maybe they'll fix that.:) > > 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. > T1 > o About 120MB for a full source tree, itself kept up to date > via sup from freefall. I have the space > > 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. hmmm peter, I meant to set jhome up for this but never got it going.. what's your bandwidth like? > > Our current method of having everyone converge on freefall is clearly > sub-optimial and it's not giving our users the service they deserve. I agree > > 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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