Hi,
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 07:26:33AM -0800, Robert wrote:
one thing i was specifically getting at in terms of machine processing speed was this.....
if machines for your _local_ use _were_ to be donated to the cause that would help decrease your compilation and other machine processing time factors.... umm what would you need compared to what you have now in and for the various architectures?
As i said before, the machine speeds ATM isn't much of issue. Issues are sadly with the bandwith for distributing.
I don't even have to take bets on this when i say i am sure that Johnny and Lancelan has been spending more time on keeping the distribution up past three weeks that what it did take time to cruch up the 3.6/4.2 releases. Making some new script that are able of monitoring the status of external mirrors etc. to get some kind of picture where it goes wrong.
i know there are folks out there that should and can afford to donate bigger better processors, i/o backplanes, and storage devices to the cause
I'd be willing to receive FibreChannel connected box which would eat SATA-disks any day ,-)
Actually most of 'would be neat to have availbale to be able to solve better problems hardware' would for me be something else than CPU.
to me every little bit helps to an extent and so why not take advantage of it if possible?
Network bandwith? :P
I do believe that we were pretty good covered on torren-side last time. I do have my own little feeder and after the initial rush, i didn't actually feed anymore on full 10Mbit/s, as there were so many fast feeds covering up the new downloads, so big thaks for whom ever those are.