Re: moving of dinstall run time on master.
On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Stephen Crowley wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 10:31:47PM +0800, Andrew Howell wrote:
> > >
> > > I highly doubt that, bandwidth is cheaper at night than it is in the middle
> > > of the day. Unless of course there is a Tier-1 mirror on the other side of
> > > the world.
> >
> > Oh my gosh, people live outside of the United States?? :)
> >
> > > They are hardly dictating our affairs. If they would have said "dinstall
> > > will only run once a week" then that would be cause for concern, all they
> > > are doing is moving dinstall to a time which will be better for *all* our
> > > mirrors and not just novare.
> >
> > Ummm, I'm a mirror and it won't be better for me, It'll be moving from
> > about 2 or 3 am to 3 pm.
> >
> > But anyway it's obviously more important for master to run outside peak
> > time than for other sites.
>
> "any other sites"? Try 3, thats how many sites outside the US mirror from
> master out of a total of 9. I'd be more beneficial to move the dinstall time
> to night US time than it would be to leave it where it is now.
It looks to me like you interpreted Andrew's comment as sarcasm. I'm
pretty sure it wasn't. We're all in agreement here - moving the time
dinstall runs makes sense.
Jules
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