On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Chuck Robey
>writes:
> : Oh. If that's a problem, it would be a fatal problem (would be for me,
> : sometimes).
>
> It used to be a big problem. When cvsup was first getting mirrors,
> some seemed to update every 15 minutes, while others updated what
> seemed like every two days. A big part of the problem was contention
> at the main cvsup server. Since cvsup has gone to cvsup-master this
> problem has all but disappeared. The mirrors all have good
> connectivity and can get updates on a timely basis.
[some deletions]
> For people updating 2x a day or less often, I doubt that switching
> between responding cvsup servers would cause great pain, or any
> effects at all.
>
> It is a hard problem to get right all the time....
Well, I really hate the idea of lots of network pinging, both because it's
not reliable for network probing, not reliable for machine load probing,
and causes more congestion, so I wanted a way to force loadsharing, one
that allowed some feedback so that real backups could be adjusted
to. OTOH, there's no way I will try to fight folks with elephantine
memories.
I even began looking at Modula-3, seeing if I could offer a diff set to
jdp. You know what I realized, and (for some reason) no one in my memory
has ever written: modula-3, in features, looks a lot like Java. It's not
a stylistic descendant of C like Java is, but featurewise, it is.
>
> Warner
>
>
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Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD,
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New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up
fictitious words in the dictionary.
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