One point to be taken into account. People who use CentOS in the developing countries have very slow and unreliable internet connections and leaves the only option to download the CDs, test them and download the bad ones again if errors found. with DVDs it's a lot more difficult, some would have to wait a lot more than 1 day for a DVD to be downloaded, and very unlikely to have a good clean image at that point. When a person has been able to successfully download the whole distribution, it will be copied distributed in the white market (no black market for linux), and this can't make it to the stats.
Well, we know torrents are good solution, but bear the above in mind as well.
Julio
--- On Mon, 13/6/11, Paul Stewart pstewart@nexicomgroup.net wrote:
From: Paul Stewart pstewart@nexicomgroup.net Subject: Re: [CentOS-mirror] CentOS-6 CDs decision needs some stats To: "Mailing list for CentOS mirrors." centos-mirror@centos.org Date: Monday, 13 June, 2011, 14:20 Thanks for that - redid the stats and got this for past 30 days:
2957 /5.6/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.6-x86_64-bin-DVD-1of2.iso 1052 /5.6/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.6-x86_64-bin-DVD-2of2.iso 213 /5.4/isos/i386/CentOS-5.4-i386-bin-DVD.iso 175 /5.6/isos/i386/CentOS-5.6-i386-LiveCD.iso 123 /5.6/isos/i386/CentOS-5.6-i386-bin-DVD.iso 35 /5.6/isos/i386/CentOS-5.6-i386-netinstall.iso 33 /5.6/isos/i386/CentOS-5.6-i386-bin-1of7.iso 32 /5.6/isos/i386/CentOS-5.6-i386-bin-2of7.iso 31 /5.6/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.6-x86_64-bin-1of8.iso 31 /5.6/isos/i386/CentOS-5.6-i386-bin-7of7.iso 31 /5.6/isos/i386/CentOS-5.6-i386-bin-6of7.iso 31 /5.6/isos/i386/CentOS-5.6-i386-bin-5of7.iso 31 /5.6/isos/i386/CentOS-5.6-i386-bin-4of7.iso 31 /5.6/isos/i386/CentOS-5.6-i386-bin-3of7.iso 30 /5.6/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.6-x86_64-netinstall.iso 30 /5.6/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.6-x86_64-bin-5of8.iso 30 /5.6/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.6-x86_64-bin-2of8.iso 29 /5.6/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.6-x86_64-bin-3of8.iso 28 /5.6/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.6-x86_64-bin-8of8.iso 28 /5.6/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.6-x86_64-bin-7of8.iso 28 /5.6/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.6-x86_64-bin-6of8.iso 28 /5.6/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.6-x86_64-bin-4of8.iso 22 /5.3/isos/i386/CentOS-5.3-i386-bin-DVD.iso 8 /5.4/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.4-x86_64-bin-DVD.iso 7 /5.5/isos/i386/CentOS-5.5-i386-bin-DVD.iso 5 /5.6/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.6-x86_64-LiveCD.iso 5 /5.5/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.5-x86_64-bin-DVD-2of2.iso 5 /5.3/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.3-x86_64-bin-DVD.iso 3 /5/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.6-x86_64-bin-DVD-1of2.iso 2 /5/isos/i386/CentOS-5.6-i386-LiveCD.iso 2 /5.5/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.5-x86_64-bin-DVD-1of2.iso 1 /5/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.6-x86_64-bin-DVD-2of2.iso 1 /5/isos/i386/CentOS-5.6-i386-bin-DVD.iso
88 /4.8/isos/i386/CentOS-4.8-i386-binDVD.iso 45 /4/isos/i386/CentOS-4.8-i386-binDVD.iso 40 /4.9/isos/i386/CentOS-4.8-i386-binDVD.iso 28 /4.8/isos/x86_64/CentOS-4.8-x86_64-binDVD.iso 28 /4.8/isos/x86_64/CentOS-4.8-x86_64-bin5of5.iso 28 /4.8/isos/x86_64/CentOS-4.8-x86_64-bin4of5.iso 28 /4.8/isos/x86_64/CentOS-4.8-x86_64-bin3of5.iso 28 /4.8/isos/x86_64/CentOS-4.8-x86_64-bin2of5.iso 28 /4.8/isos/x86_64/CentOS-4.8-x86_64-bin1of5.iso 28 /4.8/isos/i386/CentOS-4.8-i386-bin4of4.iso 28 /4.8/isos/i386/CentOS-4.8-i386-bin3of4.iso 28 /4.8/isos/i386/CentOS-4.8-i386-bin2of4.iso 28 /4.8/isos/i386/CentOS-4.8-i386-bin1of4.iso 28 /4.8/isos/alpha/centos-4.3-alpha-disc4.iso 28 /4.8/isos/alpha/centos-4.3-alpha-disc3.iso 28 /4.8/isos/alpha/centos-4.3-alpha-disc2.iso 28 /4.8/isos/alpha/centos-4.3-alpha-disc1.iso 2 /4.9/isos/x86_64/CentOS-4.8-x86_64-binDVD.iso 1 /4/isos/x86_64/CentOS-4.8-x86_64-binDVD.iso 1 /4.9/isos/x86_64/CentOS-4.8-x86_64-bin5of5.iso 1 /4.9/isos/x86_64/CentOS-4.8-x86_64-bin4of5.iso 1 /4.9/isos/x86_64/CentOS-4.8-x86_64-bin3of5.iso 1 /4.9/isos/i386/CentOS-4.8-i386-bin3of4.iso
-----Original Message----- From: centos-mirror-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-mirror-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Stange Sent: Friday, June 10, 2011 8:25 PM To: centos-mirror@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS-mirror] CentOS-6 CDs decision needs some stats
On 06/10/2011 04:08 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
hi guys,
For CentOS-6 we are thinking of dropping the CD isos
from the main
distro. So there will only be an os/ and isos/ will
have the DVD and
netinstall CD only.
However, in order to make that decision we would love
to get some
stats from mirror operators about download frequency
of CD isos and DVD isos.
Would it be possible to get something like that ? Just
numbers posted
to this list are fine. If we can get them split for
CentOS-4 and
CentOS-5, even better.
At Karanbir's request, I am posting the command I used to generate my stats, however inelegant it may be. You need to modify the log file path (and perhaps switch to cat instead of zcat if your logs aren't compressed). Also, replace the 5 with a 4 to get CentOS 4 results.
zcat /var/log/httpd/mirror.steadfast.net.access_log.*.gz | grep -ve '(404|206)' | awk '{ print $7 }' | grep '/centos/5.*.iso$' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
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