Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1998 14:15:35 -0700 From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: jason@washington.edu Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What time shall I sup? Message-ID: <199809042115.OAA12224@austin.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809040900360.2451-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu> References: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809040900360.2451-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
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In article <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809040900360.2451-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>, Jason C. Wells <jason@washington.edu> wrote: > I am going to start supping via a weekly cronjob. I would prefer to avoid > cvsup dying because the server was too busy. It won't die. It will keep retrying until it succeeds, or until it hits the limit specified on the command line. > What is the best time of the week to run cvsup? You are not going to get a useful answer to this question. Suppose I said, "The best time to run CVSup is at 14:47 UTC on the 2nd Tuesday of each week." Then a few dozen people would all change their crontabs to run CVSup at that time, and it would suddenly become the worst time of the week to run CVSup. :-) Your best bet is to spread the load by using a mirror site other than cvsup.freebsd.org. In the US, both cvsup2 and cvsup3 are almost always less loaded than cvsup.freebsd.org. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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