Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (506 mails)

[Eberhard Moenkeberg <emoenke@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Pascal Bleser wrote:
> Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
> > On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Felix Miata wrote:
> >> On 2006/11/30 16:39 (GMT+0100) Eberhard Moenkeberg apparently typed:
  
> >>> Use
> >>> http://ftp-1.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source

> >>> ftp-1 is my best server these days for all suse and opensuse directories, 
> >>> both regarding performance and actuality.

> >> I switched to this for this update. I started over 5 hours ago. It still
> >> shows >2 hours remaining. I can't tell exactly how dismal this is
> >> because yast doesn't bother to tell the download rate, but I suspect
> >> it's in the modem speed range. From good performing mirrors I can
> >> download an average CD iso in less than 20 minutes. I should have been
> >> done >4 hours ago.
> > 
> > Believe me, this is the best you can do.
> > I have a bandwidth shaping of 800 MBit/sec since 8 minutes (500 MBit/sec 
> > before), and about 2200 sessions currently.
> > The server is delivering 73 MByte/sec at the moment - so please calculate 
> > if "your part" is fair.
> > 
> > BTW: the remaining 27 MByte/sec get delivered by ftp.gwdg.de. ;-))
> > 
> > I can only guarantee the server stability, not the individual throughput. 
> > But the summary. Yes, I can. ;->>
> 
> As a side note, and to lighten the load on gwdg.de ;)
> 
> http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/ is damn fast too for
> 
> - - stable releases:
> http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/ftp.opensuse.org/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1/
> 
> - - online updates:
> http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/ftp.suse.com/suse/update/
> 
> - - 10.2 RC CD ISOs:
> http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/ftp.opensuse.org/opensuse/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-RC1/iso
> 
> - - Packman mirror:
> http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/packman/
> 
> - - guru mirror:
> http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/suser-guru/
> 
> - - build service mirror:
> http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/software.opensuse.org/
> 
> For some of those repositories, you also have the bigger boys in the
> European mirror scene: ftp.belnet.be and ftp.heanet.ie

Interesting.
What is the delivery bandwidth of ftp.skynet.be?

Maybe Christoph should extend the redirect algorithm at 
download.opensuse.org to respect outgoing bandwidth...

Cheers -e
-- 
Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke@xxxxxxx, em@xxxxxxx)
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