Adam Heath <doogie <at> debian.org> writes: > On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > > files.downloaded percent > > i386 1285422 70.5079 > > all 504789 27.6886 > > powerpc 17754 0.9738 > > ia64 10111 0.5546 > > sparc 3336 0.1830 > > arm 850 0.0466 > > alpha 507 0.0278 > > hppa 204 0.0112 > > mipsel 91 0.0050 > > m68k 15 0.0008 > > mips 7 0.0004 > > s390 4 0.0002 > > total 1823090 100.0000 > > These numbers show a cross-section of users who use this particular mirror. > It is not represenative of the world as a whole. Far from it.
Thank you. You are about the fifth or sixth person who took the time to explain that to me. But guess what? I knew that too --- but these were *the only numbers* I had ever seem. As I just said in another follow-up, the debate would be helped greatly if we had data from more primary mirrors and/or popular hosts, and longer time frames. We actually need that data to have the qualitative discussion to determine at what point the cross-product of nArches * mSourcePackages is too much for our infrastructure. Lacking access to the actual apt-get usage data, I just posted another complimentary analysis using the data based on popcon.debian.org reports. You may find it interesting. It does not contradict the above in any meaningful way (esp. once you acknowledge that it is based on a smaller sample, and a potentially biased population of core Debian developers and supporters aware of popcon, as opposed to mom&pop just using apt). Regards, Dirk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]