On 6/1/05, Michael Kress kress@hal.saar.de wrote:
Johnny Hughes schrieb:
169,788 distinct IP addresses have asked for updates since 04-Mar-2005 from mirror.centos.org
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Holy moly that's a lot.
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Apart from that I don't think, it's a good measure to count the IP addresses "since". A better measure might be to release _one_ update and to count, how many guys download that update within say two weeks, morover to ask the mirror guys to give away their access data for this update.
There's a couple of flaws with a "distinct IP" count:
1. Not all servers get updated (I know of 3 or 4 CentOS servers that probably haven't been updated in months. 2. One machine can get multiple IPs 3. Many machines can look line one IP
However, distinct IP does give us a rough estimate of installs. And even if it's off by 30% one way or another - it's a bigger number than I thought.
Greg