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From: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@roguetrader.com>
To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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Subject: Re: U.S. Mirrors wanted [was "Jim Barrett": FreeBSD Mirrors]
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On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> Jim has identified a growing problem with our U.S. mirror sites and
> thus I figured I'd cite his posting in support of a request I'd like
> to make at this time for more FreeBSD mirrors at well-connected and
> reasonably useful (e.g. at least 50-100 anonymous FTP users allowed)
> sites.  Any takers?
> 
> Please read http://www.cdrom.com/pub/FreeBSD before volunteering as it
> contains important prerequisite information which you may wish to
> consider before stepping forward.

Can you possibly give some numbers on how this will effect the regular
performance of the server, as well as bandwidth impact, etc?  Basically,
what sortof memory footprint will 50 FTP users takeup, and how will it
effect disk i/o and the net connection (be it T1 or better)..

-Brandon