On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 10:04:13PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 04:24:11PM -0700, Darren O. Benham wrote: > > Do you normally use one of the mirrors? Why not collect the opinion of > > people who routinly use mirrors for browsing... which mirror do they use > > and do they go back to the main site to use the BTS or stick with thier > > mirror. > > What's the point of an opinion poll? I see this as a technical > discussion, not a popularity contest. What I'm curious about is much > load the mirroring generates versus how much load it relieves. Is > mirroring a multi-gig archive to a bunch of machines saving n*multi-gig > bandwidth? How can the mirroring be allocated to get the most bang for > the byte? I'm targeting the BTS specifically because it's fairly large > and because latency is fairly important. (Checking the BTS before > nagging a maintainer is only helpful if the data is up to date.) Even > the mailing list archives are more amenable to mirroring than the BTS, > because their historical content is relevant; the historical content of > the BTS is nil, because old bug reports are dropped (different argument. :) Our current problem is not bandwidth, it's diskspace on www.debian.org. We need to solve that before we worry about solving a problem that isn't a problem. As far as it being a popularity contest... "spreading the load" is not the only reason to have mirror. If there's a (possibly) slow connection, it's kinder to the viewers to push everything through the bottleneck once (rsync) and then allow them to view the pages from their side of the slowdown. -- Please cc all mailing list replies to me, also. ========================================================================= * http://benham.net/index.html <gecko@benham.net> <>< * * -------------------- * -----------------------------------------------* * Debian Developer, Debian Project Secretary, Debian Webmaster * * <gecko@debian.org> <secretary@debian.org> <lintian-maint@debian.org> * * <webmaster@debian.org> <gecko@fortunet.com> <webmaster@spi-inc.org> * =========================================================================
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