diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'zarb-ml/mageia-dev/20110112/002084.html')
| -rw-r--r-- | zarb-ml/mageia-dev/20110112/002084.html | 84 |
1 files changed, 84 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/20110112/002084.html b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/20110112/002084.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..5abea574a --- /dev/null +++ b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/20110112/002084.html @@ -0,0 +1,84 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> +<HTML> + <HEAD> + <TITLE> [Mageia-dev] Proposal for Mageia: implement bitorrent protocol to allow updates download + </TITLE> + <LINK REL="Index" HREF="index.html" > + <LINK REL="made" HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20Proposal%20for%20Mageia%3A%20implement%20bitorrent%20protocol%0A%20to%20allow%20updates%20download&In-Reply-To=%3C1294835503.32187.351.camel%40akroma.ephaone.org%3E"> + <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,nofollow"> + <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> + <LINK REL="Previous" HREF="002075.html"> + <LINK REL="Next" HREF="002076.html"> + </HEAD> + <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> + <H1>[Mageia-dev] Proposal for Mageia: implement bitorrent protocol to allow updates download</H1> + <B>Michael Scherer</B> + <A HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20Proposal%20for%20Mageia%3A%20implement%20bitorrent%20protocol%0A%20to%20allow%20updates%20download&In-Reply-To=%3C1294835503.32187.351.camel%40akroma.ephaone.org%3E" + TITLE="[Mageia-dev] Proposal for Mageia: implement bitorrent protocol to allow updates download">misc at zarb.org + </A><BR> + <I>Wed Jan 12 13:31:43 CET 2011</I> + <P><UL> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="002075.html">[Mageia-dev] Proposal for Mageia: implement bitorrent protocol to allow updates download +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="002076.html">[Mageia-dev] Proposal for Mageia: implement bitorrent protocol to allow updates download +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#2084">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#2084">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#2084">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#2084">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + <HR> +<!--beginarticle--> +<PRE>Le mercredi 12 janvier 2011 à 08:05 +0100, Thierry Vignaud a écrit : +><i> On 12 January 2011 04:29, Michael Scherer <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">misc at zarb.org</A>> wrote: +</I>><i> > For example, distrib-coffee could blacklist you if you do this, if you +</I>><i> > are not alone on your network connexion. And when we deployed this +</I>><i> > measure to protect the server, the limit was 2 connexion per address, +</I>><i> > since this was taking too much ressources on the old server ( each http +</I>><i> > request taking 1 process and so memory ). +</I>><i> +</I>><i> switching to nginx would help that +</I> +According to the current mirror maintainer, the problem is not only on +http server memory usage ( I do use nginx myself on my own servers and +indeed, that would alleviate this part of the issue ). + +It is also that doing random access to file result in random seek on the +raid array, and on a regular scsi disk ( not on ssd but ssd is not cheap +for the moment ), this is more disrupting since the head of the disk is +constantly moving to seek the block to fetch. + +Fetching continuous block from the disk is faster, since there is no +delay. Fetching from random part of the disk is more problematic. + +And the same goes when done on multiple servers. It is lighter on the +overall ressources to download on one mirror and stick to it than open 5 +connexions and do 5 random seeks on 5 different disk. + +-- +Michael Scherer + +</PRE> + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="002075.html">[Mageia-dev] Proposal for Mageia: implement bitorrent protocol to allow updates download +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="002076.html">[Mageia-dev] Proposal for Mageia: implement bitorrent protocol to allow updates download +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#2084">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#2084">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#2084">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#2084">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |