On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Avery Pennarun wrote: > A while ago on debian-devel I proposed an algorithm that would allow APT to > choose the best possible server for each user from a large list > automatically. It could also be used for other tasks, eg. choosing a good > SQUID neighbour or IRC server.
This is pretty good, but it seems to loose much meaning for me with several equal servers, ftp1.us.debian.org 111 ms 16 hops 91% ok (31/34) llug.sep.bnl.gov 83 ms 15 hops 100% ok (110/110) ftp.debian.org 80 ms 19 hops 93% ok (40/43) ftp.cdrom.com 87 ms 13 hops 92% ok (39/42) -- ftp1.us.debian.org 115 ms 16 hops 93% ok (31/33) llug.sep.bnl.gov 79 ms 15 hops 85% ok (18/21) ftp.debian.org 100 ms 19 hops 90% ok (28/31) ftp.cdrom.com 105 ms 13 hops 90% ok (27/30) I'm sitting on a high speed lan conection (ie I get ~100k/s from llug) Presumably this program pushes the network a bit hard and that is why there is packet loss a straight ping to any of these sites will get 0% loss. My question is how can we build a single weighted score for each site? Let the user pick one of the top two or so. But how do you weight? Someone should definately work on this - I can make use if in APT in a big way. Jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
