On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 3:53 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <smo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4 June 2018 at 14:18, Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 02:01:13PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > >> > >>support long NOPs, for Intel CET. However, the majority of > >> > >>installations of i686 packages is for use on x86_64 systems, as > >> > >>multi-lib RPMs. > >> > >Based on what data? > >> > The mirror data I've seen, but it's really outdated at this point. > >> There are currently about 275,000 IP address checking in with x86_64 > >> systems every day. and 25,000 x86_32. So it's about 11:1. > > > > Here's a breakdown as arch percentage over time: > > > > https://twitter.com/mattdm/status/1003701941724172295 > > > > Looks like the 50:50 point was about five years ago. > > > > For F26,F27,F28 for the first 150 days of the year: > > Days: 150 > X86_32: 3769.4 avg/day > X86_64: 159540 avg/day > Ratio (32/64) 0.0236267 (1:42) > > The reason is that the majority of i386 users are not moving off of > dead/old releases. For the month of May > > Avg/day release > 28623.7 epel6 > 16009.2 epel5 > 4043.37 f25 > 3318.53 f20 > 2759.2 f08 > 2127.8 f23 > 1589.63 f27 > 1401.7 f22 > 1371 f26 > 1277.53 f21 > 1056.33 f28 > 874.2 f24 > 733.8 f14 > 562.533 f19 > 509.067 f11 > > In comparison, x86_64 is mostly living on the latest release: > [smooge@data-analysis01 mirrors]$ grep '^2018-05-.* x86_64' out-2018 > | awk '{print $3}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -bnr | head -n 15 | awk > '{print $1/30, $2}' > 671455 epel7 > 605436 epel6 > 87367.4 f27 > 60159.7 f28 > 37857.6 epel5 > 34421.4 f26 > 27011 f25 > 19115.4 f23 > 14292.2 f24 > 8627.47 f22 > 6603.3 f20 > 5863.47 f21 > 1413.37 modular_f28 > 1091.87 f19 > 868.833 f18 > > The 30 is because only 30 days of May have been analyzed. [And yes > there are still many Fedora 08 systems showing up for x86_32] > > Personally I think the number of those systems which are running > Pentium III hardware with the latest OS are probably already on this > mailing list.. I expect that they would also be looking at only > needing to support a small subset of the software since running > GNOME/KDE with usually 128->512 MB of RAM is not possible. It also > would probably want a very stripped down installer since anaconda is > aimed at 'current' hardware... probably something like the images that > ARM-32 makes. > Very good point! And wow! Fedora 08 was quite some time ago... :) -- Jeff Backus jeff.bac...@gmail.com http://github.com/jsbackus
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