Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 11:10:38 +0100 (MET) From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sup! It's killing us! Please help! Message-ID: <199511151010.LAA16549@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <29799.816385363@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Nov 14, 95 01:42:43 pm
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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 It has been on my todo list to establish the sup server on gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de for a while now but I admit that I didn't find the time to set it up. Gary Palmer offered me help already - I come back to you or Gary when it's time. Maybe the coming weekend. --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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