Hi, On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Sunday 09 October 2005 11:51, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
Even more: if you all would start your YOU at the same time, it can be very efficient because the second YOU'er already hits a buffer cache match (and so on).
So let's try: please as many as possible of the readers here (but nowhere else ;-)) change their YOU and/or YaST installation source to ftp4, and let the 0 minute of each full hour be the moment to trigger installation or update.
Ummm... I'm not sure if you're kidding or not. You don't _really_ want us all to synchronize our access to your server, do you?
I am not kidding. The synchronizing effort at http://ftp.gwdg.de for the i386 ISOs (implemented by Christoph Thiel at download.opensuse.org) is a great push. OK, all non-SUSE-using customers of ftp.gwdg.de are paying tax for this, but SUSE had all the last (10? 9? Maybe only 8) years more then 2/3 of the ftp.gwdg.de output, and now for a hopefully limited time it is more then 9/10. I consider this a service effort. If we would achieve this synchronous action (remember: "SUSE-10.0 YOU time at ftp4 is minute 0 of every hour"), I see a good chance for a major improvement in service without more stress to the server. If it happens, I simply have to watch that the outgoing sum of ftp + ftp4 does not exceed our bandwidth reserve. Not an easy task. ;-)) Cheers -e -- Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke@gwdg.de, em@kki.org)