Richard Atterer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 18 April 2007 11:30: >On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 09:02:07AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >> Reason: it's much more effective for them when users download an ISO than >> when they use jigdo. For example the ftp.fr.debian.org admin explained me >> that they were limited by the disk seek and not by the bandwith used by >> the users. > >That's interesting - I hadn't heard of this kind of problem before! :-/ >Jigdo is really designed for the "no bandwidth" and/or "no disc space" >case. But this is not a common opinion among mirror operators, or is it??
It depends on the load and set of images. If you have many simultaneous downloads each one will be in a different point of each file, and disk seeks will happen all the time, even if you have isos and not packages. For example, we're the main distributor of a Brazilian linux distro (kurumin, based on knoppix). Right now there are 650+ downloads. If the image didn't fit on ram the machine would collapse. This indeed happened in the beginning :-( I'm getting off-topic for debian-cd, this should be in the mirrors list... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
