On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 03:23:50AM +0000, RW wrote: > On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:56:16 +0300 (MSK) > Eygene Ryabinkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Today I was hit by the very bad connectivity with twaren.net and > > nchc.dl.sourceforge.net (the first site in the SF mirrors list in the > > FreeBSD ports .mk files) is hosted by Taiwan REN. So, I decided to > > implement simple randomization that will enable to evenly distribute > > the downloads between SF mirrors. > > > > ... > > +# Need to drop a couple of initial rand() values: they tend > > +# to be around 0.8 - 0.9, so for fairly small array lenght > > +# they will produce identical values at the beginning. > > + srand(); rand(); rand(); rand(); rand(); > > I think it would be sensible to seed srand from a hash of something > reproducible to make better use of caches - maybe DISTNAME+DISTVERSION. > Maybe I don't understand something, but is RANDOMIZE_MASTER_SITES (see bsd.port.mk for details) not enough? It affects though all sites, not only SF.
Just my 0.02$, Alexey. _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
