Hi, On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote:
On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote:
On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Druid wrote:
o mirrors situation [...] - Mirrors outside of Europe are not in as good shape as the European/German mirrors (bottle necks, corruption, de-synced), specially the ones with installation sources (many mirrors have ISOs, few have installation-sources), which affects many people trying to perform network installations. [...] I did not intend to intifeer or distract from this item with the my email on US mirrors. I had not seen the discussion/log or this item when I posted. My intent was to let people on OpenSUSE know that this is a major problem and does not look good to people/business that I am in contact with. Trying to advance the openSUSE cause. You should not feel bound to your "homeland" mirrors. The glass fibre light does not run slower under water.
I agree but having 2-3 sites world wide that are good is not a good thing. The load should be shared by others. Your site is the best, I just fear it is overload sometimes. The load should be shared. We need a better network for the OSS version. Using the ones that work sometimes gives time outs or unavailability. I have to often use the IP address and not download.opensuse.org... As the ones received do not have everything that is needed.
My bottleneck is not the network, but the disk I/O. Due to the huge increase in size with opensuse, the 12 GB RAM is not enough buffercache anymore (was before, network output was up to 6 times the disk I/O), and always 1000 to 2000 users are in direct concurrence at the raid controller and the disk heads now. So usually I can't even use half of the 600 MBit bandwidth i got granted. The solution is very simple in terms of concept: just increase the buffercache to 32 GB - that would need a new machine with 16 RAM slots plus the RAM. But not in terms of money: machine + RAM is > 13.000 Euro. Cheers -e -- Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke@gwdg.de, em@kki.org)