On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 13:02, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
You'll have to forgive my ignorance here, but is there some way to query
ftp/http servers for how much load they're under?
Not as a standard.
Thinking out loud, what we roughly want is:
-users can choose any mirror explicitly.
-on the
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 05:35:24PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 13:02, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
You'll have to forgive my ignorance here, but is there some way to query
ftp/http servers for how much load they're under?
Not as a standard.
Thinking out loud, what
- Forwarded message from Doug Porter -
From: Doug Porter
To: sourcemaster
Subject: Cygwin mirrors and installation
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 15:17:08 -0500
Hi,
I run archive.progeny.com, one of the Cygwin mirror sites. Our
Cygwin mirror is heavily used; averaging around 140 GB per day.
I
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Doug Porter wrote:
Hi,
I run archive.progeny.com, one of the Cygwin mirror sites. Our
Cygwin mirror is heavily used; averaging around 140 GB per day.
I was amazed by the demand for Cygwin, at least until I saw how
mirrors were presented in the Cygwin installer. They
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 09:18:54PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Doug Porter wrote:
I run archive.progeny.com, one of the Cygwin mirror sites. Our Cygwin
mirror is heavily used; averaging around 140 GB per day.
I was amazed by the demand for Cygwin, at least until I saw how
Hmm, I'd guess this puts the mirror list prioritization by response
time rather high on the TODO list...
I never considered it before but that would tend to cause the mirrors
with the best response time to be chosen almost exclusively, wouldn't
it? That might end up having the opposite
