On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 4:11 AM, Michael G Schwern <schw...@pobox.com> wrote: >> * The need for widespread mirroring is less significant than it was in >> years past. (Also using git as the inter-mirror transport of source files >> means there'll be much less traffic between mirrors. Effectively only >> the diffs between releases.) > > Not being a sysadmin, this is my gut feeling. Relative to hard drive > prices, CPAN (hell, BackPAN) has shrunk. I'd imagine the same to be > the case relative to network capacity.
I keep a year's worth of historical Apache logs for the cpan.strawberryperl.com redirector, which I would imagine is one of the more heavily used mirrors. If anyone wanted access to these logs to get some idea of the how much network traffic mirrors do, I can make them available. Adam K
