Re: a metric for number of users

2012-10-18 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:57:49PM +0200, C. P. Ghost wrote:
 On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote:
  Is there some way I could get the number of unique IPs hitting FreeBSD
  servers for software updates?  I'm curious about the direct comparison of
  numbers between FreeBSD, Ubuntu, Fedora, and SUSE for this metric.
 
 You could ask for this, but beware of drawing wrong conclusions. Where I'm
 currently working, we're fetching sources, ports and distfiles only
 once, rebuild, test, and then mirror internally to a couple of 10k
 machines. And I'm sure we're not alone doing this: it's certainly not
 such an uncommon scenario out there.

I'm familiar with the problems of trying to accurately measure users.  I
just want a kind of ballpark comparison of some metrics between different
systems, even if the way the numbers hash out make direct comparisons
wildly inaccurate, to satisfy my own curiosity.

I'm not sure who I'd ask, by the way.  That's part of the problem.

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Re: a metric for number of users

2012-10-17 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote:
 Is there some way I could get the number of unique IPs hitting FreeBSD
 servers for software updates?  I'm curious about the direct comparison of
 numbers between FreeBSD, Ubuntu, Fedora, and SUSE for this metric.

You could ask for this, but beware of drawing wrong conclusions. Where I'm
currently working, we're fetching sources, ports and distfiles only
once, rebuild,
test, and then mirror internally to a couple of 10k machines. And I'm sure
we're not alone doing this: it's certainly not such an uncommon scenario out
there.

 Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]

-cpghost.

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