Re: CVS Questions

From: Jerry McAllister (jerrymc_at_clunix.cl.msu.edu)
Date: 08/06/04

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    To: danm@prime.gushi.org (Dan Mahoney, System Admin)
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 15:00:36 -0400 (EDT)

    >
    > I was contemplating banging together a quick script to find the fastest
    > CVS mirrors which essentially tries to retrieve a small distribution from
    > all the available CVS servers. Does this seem like the type of thing that
    > would be well-recieved into the base-distro or ports? Or would it simply
    > be seen as putting extra load on the CVS servers?

    The problem is that the response you would get would be only valid
    for where you are running the script. Every host in the world would
    get different results, because they would have different conditions
    and connections.

    Having one person running something like that wouldn't put much
    load on anything, but, if everyone in FreeBSD land fired something
    like that up everytime they were to download stuff, it was add
    unnecessary load.

    > An optional thing I would be interested in putting in this is the ability
    > to disfavor any server which was close to its access limit. Is there any
    > support in the protocol for knowing which user out of how many you are?
    >
    > -Dan Mahoney
    >
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    >
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    >
    > -Bill Nolan
    > 2/24/04
    >
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