Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 13:03:19 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: Please help spread the CVSup mirror load more evenly Message-ID: <200001231303.NAA01359@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Warner Losh <imp@village.org> of "Fri, 21 Jan 2000 22:00:05 MST." <200001220500.WAA17674@harmony.village.org>
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> In message <20000121180914.C44132@dragon.nuxi.com> "David O'Brien" writes:
> : "load" on the mirror. Where "load" is either one of the connection
> : slots, or actual kernel resource load if I have 20% packet loss and thus
> : cause a lot of retransmissions to occur.
>
> Hmmm. A thought just occurred to me. There's no need to measure
> these things. Lookup all the IP addresses. Do a non blocking
> connection to each of these machines. First one to come back with the
> REL16_1 response wins, and all the others get closed and you use that
> one.
I like this idea, except that some sort of consistency is required -
ie, once I've started using cvsupX, I'd like to use it in preference
to slightly better machines unless it stays bad for some configurable
number of connections....
> Warner
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