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Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 10:43
AM
Subject: Re: Re[2]: [sniffer] Sniffer
Updates
Automate harassment reminders to those of us not using it.
:)
I think I'll go enable gzip tonight
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To:
Landry William <sniffer@SortMonster.com>
Sent:
Mon Dec 27 12:36:06 2004
Subject: Re[2]: [sniffer] Sniffer
Updates
On Monday, December 27, 2004, 12:46:19 PM, Landry
wrote:
LW> Are folks taking advantage of the "wget" compression
option before
LW> downloading their rulebase updates? If the slow
download speeds are a
LW> bandwidth saturation issue on the Sniffer end,
this would certainly cut down
LW> on the bandwidth requirements on their
end and increase the download times
LW> for everyone.
LW>
Also, I've got to ask, if the downloads are happening "behind the
scenes",
LW> by an automated or triggered download, why the concern
about speeds, as long
LW> as your downloads are
successful?
>From what I've seen in the logs, only about 5% of folks
are taking
advantage of gzip right now.
Also, I did some
incantations on the log (grep, awk, uniq etc) and
came up with just under
half of our customers downloading their
rulebase between 1200 and 1300
today. That's between 2 and 3 times as
many as should have done it ;-) --
so the backlog is explainable.
This kind of thing happens for lots of
reasons and there are a lot of
ways to mitigate the problem.
A big
one on the list - certainly - is using the gzip capability. With
only 5% of
folks using this and average compression ratios well above
50% there is
plenty of room to "make a big dent" in this.
_M
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