[Mageia-dev] Packaging for Mageia

Fri Jan 21 18:48:56 CET 2011

On 11/01/21 18:17 +0100, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
+> On 21 January 2011 16:15, Jerome Quelin <jquelin at gmail.com> wrote:
+> > note to packagers: it's now very easy to throttle in an adaptive way
+> > (thanks to pascal terjean). just add the following before submitting a
+> > package:
+> >
+> >    sleep $( HEAD http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/ | perl -nE '/X-BS-Throttle: (\d+)/ && print $1' )
+> 
+> WOW!
+> 
+> I'd use "HEAD http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/ | fgrep X-BS-Throttle | cut
+> -d: -f 2" instead
+> (less I/O thanks to not loading perl?)
+
+since i'm not loading any modules, i'm not sure.
+
+demonstration:
+$ strace cut 2>&1 | grep open|wc -l
+11
+$ strace fgrep 2>&1 | grep open|wc -l
+12
+$ strace perl -e42 2>&1 | grep open|wc -l
+22
+
+so, your solution opens 1 more file, and forks 1 more process:  i'd say perl wins.
+
+
+but for such small workloads, i'd say it's even. especially since it's dwarfed
+by the internet access! :-)
+
+(aren't we nerds discussing such topics?)
+
+
+> Too sad nobody did that back at mdv in the old days
+> Hurra Pascal!
+
+definitely. that's awesome: everybody is now treated the same way
+provided we follow this rule...
+
+
+jérôme 
+-- 
+jquelin at gmail.com
+