Hi, On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Monday 2006-02-27 at 14:02 +0100, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Viras wrote:
The boxed set will contain a DVD. There only wont be a downloadable DVD at the website (at least that's what they said at the FOSDEM).
A "wise" decision, as long as not even the 10.0-supplied apache is able to deliver files > 2 GB.
I'm curious. O:-)
Does downloading a dvd image have more impact of an ftp server than downloading (or installing) from the classical ftp tree, ie, each separate rpm? I mean, of course, with many simultaneous clients, as in gwdg.
Downloading a big image causes much less filesystem operations at the server than fetching a bunch of single files. At ftp.gwdg.de, just the filesystem I/O is the bottleneck. But usually at the home user side the network is the bottleneck, so it makes sense to use an external server as the installation source. This way, much less volume has to get transfered. But if the servers have a high load, this "less volume" transfer may need longer than the "big volume", due to filesystem latencies. Cheers -e -- Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke@gwdg.de, em@kki.org)