Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 17:01:12 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: need for another cvsup site? Message-ID: <19980120170112.46360@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> In-Reply-To: <199801210055.QAA28917@austin.polstra.com>; from John Polstra on Tue, Jan 20, 1998 at 04:55:14PM -0800 References: <19980119233422.52834@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> <199801210055.QAA28917@austin.polstra.com>
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John Polstra scribbled this message on Jan 20: > In article <19980119233422.52834@hydrogen.nike.efn.org>, > John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> wrote: > > well.. subject pretty much says it all... is there need for another > > cvsup site? I have a machine that pretty much runs idle most of the > > time... and already keeps an updated tree (once a day)... > > Thanks for the offer. I'm not sure how much need there is for another > US mirror. I'd like to hear from the maintainers of cvsup2 and cvsup3 > how heavily loaded they are currently. (I am already in touch with > cvsup.freebsd.org.) I suspect that cvsup2 and cvsup3 aren't loaded to > full capacity. I'd like to avoid adding another US mirror unless we well... I've hit the max on cvsup2 before, but that isn't common... > really need it. Freefall gets a surprising load just from keeping all > the mirror sites updated. I can imagine... and this is why I sent mail here first before spending the time to get it up and running... :) > I have an enhancement to CVSup that dramatically reduces the load > on mirror sites, if I can just find the time to put together a > release. It should enable our existing mirrors to increase their > limit on the number of simultaneous clients. It's been in place on > cvsup.freebsd.org for several weeks, and it seems to really help a > lot. It only helps on mirror sites, though. It won't make any > difference for freefall itself. sounds good... -- John-Mark Gurney Modem/FAX: +1 541 683 6954 Cu Networking P.O. Box 5693, 97405 Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD
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