From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jun 18 12:27:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [194.221.183.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5204A37B401 for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2001 12:27:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 7196 invoked by uid 0); 18 Jun 2001 19:27:24 -0000 Received: from p3ee21634.dip.t-dialin.net (HELO speedy.gsinet) (62.226.22.52) by mail.gmx.net (mail02) with SMTP; 18 Jun 2001 19:27:24 -0000 Received: (from sittig@localhost) by speedy.gsinet (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA15396 for stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 18 Jun 2001 17:58:15 +0200 Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 17:58:15 +0200 From: Gerhard Sittig To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Benchmarking CVSup Message-ID: <20010618175815.Q17514@speedy.gsinet> Mail-Followup-To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <15147.11676.233301.492707@guru.mired.org> <20010617113330.B24751@absinthe.condo.chico.ca.us> <20010618112434.C43103@brel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20010618112434.C43103@brel.com>; from calvinng@brel.com on Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 11:24:34AM +0800 Organization: System Defenestrators Inc. Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 11:24 +0800, Calvin NG wrote: > > hey, that only count the hops, I would tot avg ping response > would be more interesting, so how about inside the loop, do > echo -n "cvsup${i} " > ping -c 10 cvsup${i}.freebsd.org | tail -1 No. The previous discussion has shown that ping results don't necessarily reflect cvsupd responsiveness (and cvsup servers don't need to accept ping and traceroute "requests" as long as they serve their primary purpose). If one would count on basic network services, both distance and delay seem to matter. That's why "traceroute -n $H | tail -1" should be of concern -- short of a measure for cvsup efficiency (until experience over multiple cvsup sessions has been established). virtually yours 82D1 9B9C 01DC 4FB4 D7B4 61BE 3F49 4F77 72DE DA76 Gerhard Sittig true | mail -s "get gpg key" Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net -- If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above ask your parents or an adult to help you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message