From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim Kingdon To: law@cygnus.com Cc: shebs@shebs.cnchost.com, overseers@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: ftp load Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 06:08:00 -0000 Message-id: <200003142156.QAA22288@devserv.devel.redhat.com> References: <7702.953051937@upchuck> X-SW-Source: 2000/msg00208.html > It is believed we are saturating the dedicated T1 for the sourceware > machine, so we've throttled the FTP connections (again). I may have started that rumor but I'm not sure I was right. If anyone wants to crunch the numbers at http://sourceware.cygnus.com/sourceware/bandwidth/ please do. Right now I'm getting: 1.5 M bits/sec / (8 bits / byte) * 3600 seconds/hour * 24 hours/day * 7 days/week = 113 Gbytes/week capacity of a T1. Compared with 75 Gbytes/week on the usage report. So maybe we are saturated.... I'd feel better about this if we had someone who knows about such things look at the situation, rather than just my back of the envelope scribblings where I keep wondering if I forgot something obvious. Fuzz factors like "CVS is not counted" and "2-4(?) factor between peak and off-peak" are obvious but there could be others. Marc Rovner plans to switch around the NIC's (he has bought two new NIC's), and he thinks that will help. He is more likely to know than I. He's really busy right now (Ian Elverson, one of the other sysadmins, left the company, for those who didn't hear) but it seems high priority to me (especially with all those new releases - and new projects - coming up). > The best thing to do is to get some mirrors :-) You might even have > some that you're not aware of (a number of sites appear to just mirror > everything on sourceware they can find). Exactly, the list is at http://sourceware.cygnus.com/mirrors.html Plan on people needing to use mirrors for the foreseeable future. > As for long term plans, there has been talk of co-locating sourceware, but > it hasn't progressed beyond "just talk" yet. I haven't heard anything about that in months. As far as I know, we'd need to justify the $$$ if we want more bandwidth and we haven't really been trying to do that recently (nor did we have much luck when we - Donnie Barnes specifically - did try. Speaking of which Donnie is at the Red Hat Center for Open Source and we should probably hit them up for money if/when we have a plan for what we need it for). Those of you in Red Hat have probably seen my hosting.html (or ask if not) about the funding and all that jazz. But since it is you asking, Stan, does Apple want to host a mirror or something like that? Mirrors don't require the same kind of bureaucracy that anything involving money seems to. Well not on our end that is ;-). From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim Kingdon To: law@cygnus.com Cc: shebs@shebs.cnchost.com, overseers@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: ftp load Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 13:56:00 -0000 Message-ID: <200003142156.QAA22288@devserv.devel.redhat.com> References: <7702.953051937@upchuck> X-SW-Source: 2000-q1/msg00035.html Message-ID: <20000314135600.hN0ac7XQtvtAFxbiOtGgeS9iNDi4gzrbtV_-rb0JzOg@z> > It is believed we are saturating the dedicated T1 for the sourceware > machine, so we've throttled the FTP connections (again). I may have started that rumor but I'm not sure I was right. If anyone wants to crunch the numbers at http://sourceware.cygnus.com/sourceware/bandwidth/ please do. Right now I'm getting: 1.5 M bits/sec / (8 bits / byte) * 3600 seconds/hour * 24 hours/day * 7 days/week = 113 Gbytes/week capacity of a T1. Compared with 75 Gbytes/week on the usage report. So maybe we are saturated.... I'd feel better about this if we had someone who knows about such things look at the situation, rather than just my back of the envelope scribblings where I keep wondering if I forgot something obvious. Fuzz factors like "CVS is not counted" and "2-4(?) factor between peak and off-peak" are obvious but there could be others. Marc Rovner plans to switch around the NIC's (he has bought two new NIC's), and he thinks that will help. He is more likely to know than I. He's really busy right now (Ian Elverson, one of the other sysadmins, left the company, for those who didn't hear) but it seems high priority to me (especially with all those new releases - and new projects - coming up). > The best thing to do is to get some mirrors :-) You might even have > some that you're not aware of (a number of sites appear to just mirror > everything on sourceware they can find). Exactly, the list is at http://sourceware.cygnus.com/mirrors.html Plan on people needing to use mirrors for the foreseeable future. > As for long term plans, there has been talk of co-locating sourceware, but > it hasn't progressed beyond "just talk" yet. I haven't heard anything about that in months. As far as I know, we'd need to justify the $$$ if we want more bandwidth and we haven't really been trying to do that recently (nor did we have much luck when we - Donnie Barnes specifically - did try. Speaking of which Donnie is at the Red Hat Center for Open Source and we should probably hit them up for money if/when we have a plan for what we need it for). Those of you in Red Hat have probably seen my hosting.html (or ask if not) about the funding and all that jazz. But since it is you asking, Stan, does Apple want to host a mirror or something like that? Mirrors don't require the same kind of bureaucracy that anything involving money seems to. Well not on our end that is ;-).