Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 2 May 2005 08:49:30 -0700 | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.12-rc3-mm1 |
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On Mon, 02 May 2005 11:28:05 -0400 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
| On Sun, 01 May 2005 15:30:40 +0200, Adrian Bunk said: | | > How much bandwith does this require? | > | > Currently, 2.6.12-rc3-mm1 requires 3.7 MB for the -rc3 patch (which can | > be used for several -mm patches) plus 2.6 MB for the -mm patch. | > | > The 47 MB download for 2.6.11 are required only once for the many -mm | > kernels between 2.6.11 and 2.6.12. | > | > Looking at these numbers, the average download required for every -mm | > kernel is currently far below 10 MB. | | And even *more* importantly, note that when downloading a -mm or -rc3 patch, | there's minimal server overhead - it opens *one* file and streams it to the | FTP connection. sendfile() anybody? ;) | | How many open/close/etc are needed to sync up 2 'git' mirrors? I don't care *how* | stupendous git/mercurial/whatever are, they're going to have a *really* hard time | getting down to the overhead of an FTP session sending a .bz2 file. | | Unless of course, there's only me and a dozen other people even *trying* -mm | kernels and the distinction is lost in the noise... (Out of curiosity, how | many downloads *DO* the -mm kernels get? I know Linus and Andrew want more | testing.. let's keep that in mind here.. ;)
Last I heard, Andrew had access to kernel.org transfer logs, but the problem is that we can't tell anything about the download counts from mirrors.
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