From owner-freebsd-hubs Tue Aug 21 10:24: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from claven.cs.wisc.edu (claven.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.6.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E5E637B440 for ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 10:23:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jolson@tux38.cs.wisc.edu) Received: from tux38.cs.wisc.edu (tux38.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.111.138]) by claven.cs.wisc.edu (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id MAA11488; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 12:23:48 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from jolson@localhost) by tux38.cs.wisc.edu (8.9.2/8.9.2) id MAA15923; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 12:23:48 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 12:23:48 -0500 From: James Olson To: Daniel Lang Cc: hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WWW/CVS Mirror ... Information ? Message-ID: <20010821122348.B15901@tux38.cs.wisc.edu> References: <20010821114713.X59289-100000@orbimus.dhs.org> <20010821181953.D10931@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010821181953.D10931@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>; from dl@leo.org on Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 06:19:53PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Along the same lines, is it possible to be an official mirror without mirroring all 50 gigs? Currently I have 4.2, 4.3, 4.x stable and all -current stuff mirrored until i can get more disk space for the rest of FreeBSD. -Jim On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 06:19:53PM +0200, Daniel Lang wrote: > Dear Kyle, > > Kyle Rollin wrote on Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 11:54:40AM -0400: > [..] > > First, thanks for your offer and your commitment to contribute > to the distribution of FreeBSD. > > I cannot speak for the project, just for myself. > Alas, your equipment seems not sufficient for the job. > A full mirror of FreeBSD can consume up to 50 GB, > you would have to make a _very careful_ selection of what to mirror > and still have to fight with full filesystems. > Bandwidth may be ok, but could become a bottleneck. > > CPU and memory may not be the issue, but will also limit > the number of clients (and the services you can offer) > (esp. memory). > > Here are some figures for my site, which handles on average > about 40 FTP , 3 rsync and 2 cvsup connections (but not just FreeBSD): > > 4 x PPro 200 (just like yours, but a 4-way SMP), 512 MB RAM, > and ~ 400 GB on disk arrays, 100Mbps switched to a shared > OC-12 line. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message