Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 14:10:36 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu> To: dg@root.com, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new all-time traffic record on wcarchive Message-ID: <199702211910.OAA09912@crh.cl.msu.edu> References: <5ekk9t$2sd$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
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In lists.freebsd.chat you write:
>>On Fri, 21 Feb 1997, David Greenman wrote:
>>
>>> > We set a new all-time one day traffic record on wcarchive yesterday. The
>>> >stats are attached. Note that the numbers would have been even higher (by
>>> >about 4GB) had a drive not failed and killed the machine an hour before the
>>> >log rotation/stats generation.
>>>
>>> Other miscellaneous info: The old record was 115GB and was set on August
>>> 10th, 1996. This new record of 142.8GB beats out the old one by nearly 25%.
>>
>>Does the setting of this record happen to correspond to crl fixing some
>>of its links (I refer to a short discussion ~week ago), or was it the
>>release of FreeBSD 2.1.7, or was it...???
> Well, CRL really doesn't have anything they need to "fix", but they have
>done a number of things to work around the congestion problem that MCI is
>having at the PB-NAP. They've tried to split the traffic between MAE-west
>and PB-NAP for one. I also found out last night that another major provider
>is now backhauling all of their MCI traffic to MAE-east in an attempt to steer
>clear of the problem. The combination of providers now avoiding MCI at PB-NAP,
>and CRL's attempts to better distribute the traffic are two of the main
>reasons why we set a new record. ...of course the FreeBSD 2.1.7 release helped
>out a bunch, too. :-)
Course those changes have made cdrom.com unusable for a large portion of the
state of Michigan. We're getting a few bytes/sec transfer rates here (and im
all DS3 to Mae-East at least. Oh well. I've finally resorted to doing the ftp
via a 256k link I have into Sprint. Its clipping along quite nicely at the
moment.
-Crh
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