From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 18 18:17:24 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 6550FB72 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2012 18:17:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from oproxy7-pub.bluehost.com (oproxy7-pub.bluehost.com [67.222.55.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 29EC38FC16 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2012 18:17:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 643 invoked by uid 0); 18 Oct 2012 18:17:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box543.bluehost.com) (74.220.219.143) by oproxy7.bluehost.com with SMTP; 18 Oct 2012 18:17:02 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=apotheon.com; s=default; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version:References:Message-ID:Subject:To:From:Date; bh=xE+fhfzkTq08PxVLC6IR9AoFWISsUXa+b8/3u04ZjpU=; b=bZWtBdvBB8RAXrEJT7Zi83k8xlikLGhecIyWUydC1Nf9V3AfhKG/DtpMRbfQxB6BrDDF1+swfoiFQWhHHR2CdLrV1ZN1hPvScEMvm7alWW7CVXVNq/yksqQwx7vdWcxj; Received: from [24.8.180.234] (port=61599 helo=localhost) by box543.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1TOueU-00079b-2k for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2012 12:17:02 -0600 Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 12:17:01 -0600 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a metric for number of users Message-ID: <20121018181701.GA3559@hemlock.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20121015173418.GA27414@hemlock.hydra> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="gKMricLos+KVdGMg" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Identified-User: {2737:box543.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.com} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with perrin@apotheon.com} 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: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 18:17:24 -0000 --gKMricLos+KVdGMg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:57:49PM +0200, C. P. Ghost wrote: > 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. >=20 > 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. I'm familiar with the problems of trying to accurately measure users. I just want a kind of ballpark comparison of some metrics between different systems, even if the way the numbers hash out make direct comparisons wildly inaccurate, to satisfy my own curiosity. I'm not sure who I'd ask, by the way. That's part of the problem. --=20 Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] --gKMricLos+KVdGMg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlCAR50ACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKX9CACeIKY+2+VpD4wmFSmQNk7aaj0D PCAAoPOvkVRS82uSQr8arIBtPUCoy+7G =J8xI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --gKMricLos+KVdGMg--