Re: TCP speedup

2006-04-23 Thread Baruch Even
Amos Shapira wrote: > Someone at my workplace just implemented the top-part of the suggestions at > this page: http://www-didc.lbl.gov/TCP-tuning/linux.html > and got a 30x speedup (peaking at 50x speedup) on rsync of the mozilla mirror. These sort of changes (increasing the tx/rx buffers of tcp)

Re: Archive of this list

2006-04-23 Thread shaulka
> > http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.linux.region.israel > http://mail-archive.com/linux-il%40cs.huji.ac.il/ > Can iglu.org.il lists these URLs too where Hamakor archive is mentioned ? > Don't know about years back history storage, but for recent > discussions (up to a few months back) both those

TCP speedup

2006-04-23 Thread Amos Shapira
Someone at my workplace just implemented the top-part of the suggestions at this page: http://www-didc.lbl.gov/TCP-tuning/linux.html and got a 30x speedup (peaking at 50x speedup) on rsync of the mozilla mirror. The page says it's good only for Gigbit connected hosts. What are the Israeli mirrors

Re: Looking for another ISP (a bit off topic)

2006-04-23 Thread Amos Shapira
On 4/24/06, Stanislav Malyshev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > GD>> Switching ISP might not solve the problem... It's just a matter of time > GD>> till all other ISPs follow suite. > > That might depend on how many users would leave Netvision and tell them > the reason they left is the bandwidth limit

Re: charge per usage (a bit off topic)

2006-04-23 Thread Amos Shapira
On 4/24/06, Amit Aronovitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just a thought - maybe, if approached by the right people, they could be > persuaded not to count specific IP's > (e.g. Hamakor mirrors) for this "fine"? > > After all, open-source distros and package updates are not such a big > chunk of tra

Re: charge per usage (a bit off topic)

2006-04-23 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Stanislav Malyshev wrote: >GD>> Switching ISP might not solve the problem... It's just a matter of time >GD>> till all other ISPs follow suite. > >That might depend on how many users would leave Netvision and tell them >the reason they left is the bandwidth limitations. If there's enough the >id

Re: Looking for another ISP (was: a bit off topic. Now: Even more)

2006-04-23 Thread Yonah Russ
The fact that BT takes up the largest percentage of the bandwidth doesn't really tell you anything about bandwidth usage. It's a meaningless fact. The real fact is that 95% of the world could be using the internet for email and web browsing alone (both of which are very low bandwidth applications

Re: Looking for another ISP (was: a bit off topic. Now: Even more)

2006-04-23 Thread Oded Arbel
On Sunday, 23 בApril 2006 10:47, Ira Abramov wrote: > well, it's nice that you pay for online multimedia, most people > don't. in fact I don't know the latest numbers but well over 50% of > the world's IP traffic today are bittorrent streams He. I was initially going to refute the above claim - ar

Re: Looking for another ISP (a bit off topic)

2006-04-23 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
GD>> Switching ISP might not solve the problem... It's just a matter of time GD>> till all other ISPs follow suite. That might depend on how many users would leave Netvision and tell them the reason they left is the bandwidth limitations. If there's enough the idea might seem less appealing to o

Re: Educational games for 7-9 year old children

2006-04-23 Thread Skliarouk Arieh
You can also check childsplay, fillets-ng, pingus, gcompris. In addidion to simutrans (which I have found unplayable) check also openttd. You will need original files though. --- Bye, | Phone: (972)-2-6795364 Arieh | Fax: (972)-2-6796453 Beni Cherniavsky wrote: On 4/13/06, [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Looking for another ISP (was: a bit off topic. Now: Even more)

2006-04-23 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Gadi Cohen, from the post of Fri, 21 Apr: > > 1) smallest scale: skype works because its free and you don't pay per minute > 2) medium scale: i can't leave my internet radio playing anymore? > 2) large scale: i pay a content provider for online movies... now i have > to pay my ISP aswell??

Re: Archive of this list

2006-04-23 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Geoffrey S. Mendelson, from the post of Sun, 23 Apr: > On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 02:01:37AM +0300, Alon Altman wrote: > > Why not? It is trivial to add a google search box to the archives. In the > > meanwhile, just add site:mirror.hamakor.org.il/archives/linux-il/ > > But then those of us w