Now that sounds like a plan. Since were treading here. I would also propose this service be run on the msync machines, As I figure they are already geographically diverse. I would also go further to say that in this process of checking, You get results back, 5 machines say bad, 2 say 30Mb/s+ then it would be marked as good for its region. If the mirror could push out a good amount of bandwidth to even one of the testing machines, it is doing fine. And the others could be lined up as bad peering/connection to the server. You know, Atleast have a bit of intelligence in the method. And Yes, if the "monitoring" load was as low as 1gb a month, most mirrors wouldn't even notice. On 8/24/2010 5:30 PM, Graham Frank wrote: > Nick -- > Oh most definitely. One thought I had previously was an opt-in where > users who update with yum can opt to have transfer rates sent back to > centos.org. But that's treading into deep waters... > > When I say "test the server" I mean in a distributed sense. I.e. > multiple servers are checking from many geographically diverse > regions. Any one faulty checking server can easily be identified in a > sea of working ones. That idea pushes up the bandwidth usage for > checking, however. But even if checking uses a gigabyte of bandwidth > per month, that's nothing compared to the overall bandwidth they will > see in the same time period. Some acceptable ground should be there > somewhere. > > --Graham > > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Nick Olsen<Nick at 141networks.com> wrote: >> Only problem I see with this is it would be dependent on what the mirror >> could pull from the other mirrors. >> Lets say the "checking" server is in the US, and the server being >> checked is in Australia. It might hand out 10Gb/s to local users, But it >> doesn't get used because its marked bad, All because the checking server >> is far away(network wise). Or lets say the "checking" server has some >> sort of bandwidth issue, Then they all get marked poor... Lots of things >> to consider on this one. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-mirror mailing list > CentOS-mirror at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-mirror >