On Sun, 15 Apr 2007, Kevin M Stange wrote: > Lance Davis wrote: >> >> With the release of 5 we have seen a tremendous increase in the use of >> the dvd.iso , so that from bitorrent it is now downloaded 5 times more >> than the cd isos. > > For a while there, we were the only mirror showing DVDs on the CentOS > site. We had to throttle our bandwidth because we were pushing as much > as 350 Mbps, mostly in DVD ISOs. Things have calmed down a bit from > that high now. Phew - thanks for that - I think there are now 4 US mirrors shown carrying dvd isos - and we are pushing to get more ... > >> The main issue with having the dvd isos available from mirrors is that >> Apache < 2.2 running on 32 bit architecture wont display files larger >> than 2.0 GB , however CentOS 5 has Apache 2.2 with large file support so >> that problem will now start to go away - alternative is also to use >> lighttpd. > > Rebuilding the apr, apr-util, and httpd SRPMs from CentOS 5 or Fedora > Devel will work for CentOS 4. Only catch, httpd includes an init script > which requires a new version of initscripts. To work around it, you can > install the src RPM, then grab your old /etc/init.d/httpd and replace > /usr/src/redhat/SOURCE/httpd.init. Then you can set the dependency to > require 7.93 of initscripts instead in the specfile and build. That's > what we're doing currently. > aha Regards Lance > Kevin > > -- > Kevin Stange > Chief Technology Officer > Steadfast Networks > http://steadfast.net > > Phone: 312-602-2689 x203 > Fax: 312-602-2688 > Cell: 312-320-5867 > > uklinux.net - The ISP of choice for the discerning Linux user.