Am 08/01/2011 09:14 PM, schrieb Dave Fisher:
On Aug 1, 2011, at 12:07 PM, Rob Weir wrote:
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Marcus (OOo)<marcus.m...@wtnet.de> wrote:
Hi,
AFAIK the current projects at Apache doesn't have high download numbers
compared with OOo. So, a download request can point directly to a mirror or
a mirror list is shown and the users have to choose themselves from where to
get the software best.
For OpenOffice this doesn't work. With download numbers up to 500,000 per
month we need a more flexible and scaleable solution. I don't know if or how
fast we could reach these numbers again. But even with the half it would be
a lot to handle. Furthermore we have to present a) a simple way to download
for the end-users that is b) *not* stressing a few/specific mirror servers
to their maximum.
The current solution you can see on "download.openoffice.org" works very
well. However, the infrastructure behind this is still hosted on Oracle
server. So, we have to transfer this, too.
I don't speak about domain, website and its content. That's already on the
list for migration. It's about the download redirector behind the colored
webpages (http://download.services.openoffice.org/files/). Here MirrorBrain
is used (www.mirrorbrain.org) to recognize from where the download request
comes and which mirror server to choose that is near to the user.
I would like to continue this service and IMHO it shouldn't be that
difficult when I look at the requirements:
http://www.mirrorbrain.org/requirements/
The obvious question would be: Is there a problem with using the 262
mirrors that Apache already uses?
Maybe, if we are hosting the current legacy of non AL2.0 licensed distributions
it will be an issue.
http://www.apache.org/mirrors/
Do you think that they cannot handle the load?
From what I'm reading, the Apache system does not just give a static
list of mirrors to the user. There is some logic to ensure that the
same server is not at the top all the time. And there are mechanisms,
like closer.cgi to suggest a reasonable mirror for a given user, e.g.:
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi
I wonder whether it would make sense to try the Apache mirroring
infrastructure until we're convinced that it won't work?
The python for the Apache Mirrors is here:
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/infrastructure/site/trunk/content/dyn/mirrors/mirrors.cgi
Mirror list is here:
http://www.apache.org/mirrors/mirrors.list
Someone mentioned that there is a lot of overlap with OOo mirrors.
IMHO the problem is not the number or structure of the mirror network.
Of course we can use the mirror server for Apache. But the "how to use
them" is important.
Marcus
When running in a VM it should be a small part within the OpenOffice project
to maintain. In the past at Oracle we just had to add/modify/delete mirrors
and very few times to restart the VM in case of problems.
Marcus
