On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 11:34:16PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Andrew Suffield wrote: > > s390 is a little special, because it's neither a desktop nor a server > > architecture, but rather a mainframe one. One software installation > > can service many thousands of users; these are the things IBM was > > talking about when they thought they would only sell five of them. So > > it will always be disproportionately low by this measure. Exactly how > > far different it is from the rest is difficult to tell. > > I'm not a s390 admin (though I play one in hercules), but I really doubt > that anyone takes a s390 and installs only one debian vm on it. If > you're running big iron with thousands of users, you'll have a bunch of > vm's running debian, and each of these will produce mirror load (unless > one of them runs a local mirror). I'd expect them to install one and then copy it or something. Nobody smart enough to own an s390 downloads the same files a thousand times over. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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