Well, we've had 2 million downloads over the project's lifetime, of say
3MB each, which is 6 terabytes. I suppose over that period it wouldn't
be such a big deal, but on peak it might be - if the gentoo script
checks it out from CVS, then around a major release (ours or gentoo's),
we might end up using a significant amount of bandwidth.

On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 04:19:43PM +0100, Ian Clarke wrote:
> 
> 
> On 22 Sep 2005, at 15:36, Matthew Toseland wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 08:06:35PM -0400, Juiceman wrote:
> >
> >>I noticed there haven't been any new snaphots since the 13th.  There
> >>should at least be new seednodes being generated, right?
> >>
> >>Would it be possible to put up a daily contrib.source.tar.bz2 ?   
> >>There
> >>is one up there from July 2004.
> >>
> >
> >It appears that the reason for the snapshots not being updated is
> >sourceforge suckage.
> >
> >Does anyone have any recommendations? The problem with running our own
> >CVS (or whatever) server is that it might take up a significant amount
> >of bandwidth if anonymous CVS is used much (e.g. by gentoo).
> 
> Well, how much bandwidth are we talking about?  I think dodo has  
> about 15GB per month.  I find it hard to believe that running a  
> subversion server could take up that much bandwidth unless gentoo are  
> doing something really crazy.
> 
> Ian.
> 

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