On 1/8/19 4:22 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > If all you want to do is count, then it should be entirely sufficient > to do it like this: > > GET /metalink?repo=fedora-28&arch=x86_64&edition=<blah>&countme=1 HTTP/1.1 > > the first time within each one-week window and a simple > > GET /metalink?repo=fedora-28&arch=x86_64&edition=<blah> HTTP/1.1 > > all other times.
As an additional improvement, is it really needed to count every machine? We can subsample a lot, and only let some specific machines to show up for counting. That is, apply the logic above only if(hash(machine_id)%1000==0) (this becomes a poll instead of a referendum, results must then be multiplied by 1000) Or, to avoid having somebody constantly be counted and other constantly ignored, the rule could be if(hash(machine_id)%1000==hash(weekofthecentury)%1000) With this setup I know that 99.9% of the weeks I'm not reporting anything at all. Of course 1000 is a constant that may be tuned, but looks a good choice to me if the expected total number is on the order of 1 million. Regards. -- Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
