On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 12:36 AM, Ray Morris <support at bettercgi.com> wrote: > Would it be good to be able to serve the same number of users > while reducing resource consumption, including bandwidth, by 70%? > > Let's get rid of some of the noise in the data and compare just > DVD versus CD. Using the NetNITCO data let's look at only the > most rcent release, 5.6, and for less noise let's look at > the most popular CPU, i386: > > > 65 /5.6/isos/i386/CentOS-5.6-i386-bin-DVD.iso > 25 /5.6/isos/i386/CentOS-5.6-i386-bin-1of7.iso > 20 /5.6/isos/i386/CentOS-5.6-i386-netinstall.iso > 16 /5.6/isos/i386/CentOS-5.6-i386-bin-5of7.iso > 13 /5.6/isos/i386/CentOS-5.6-i386-bin-4of7.iso > 13 /5.6/isos/i386/CentOS-5.6-i386-bin-2of7.iso > 12 /5.6/isos/i386/CentOS-5.6-i386-bin-3of7.iso > 9 /5.6/isos/i386/CentOS-5.6-i386-bin-7of7.iso > 9 /5.6/isos/i386/CentOS-5.6-i386-bin-6of7.iso > 5 /5.6/isos/i386/CentOS-5.6-i386-LiveCD.iso > > CD 1 is downloaded 38% percent as often as the DVD - > a significant amount. So people seem to want CDs a good > portion of the time. Also interesting is that CD 6 and 7 > are downloaded about 1/3rd as much as CD 1. It looks like > a lot of people are like me in that they do installations > with only the first CD or two and don't need to download > all 4 GB. > > That's a 70% reduction in bandwidth, time, disk io on the > mirrors when they get CD #1 & #2 instead of the full DVD. > Every user who is served by downloading only 2 CDs totalling > 1.2 GB instead of 4 GB is good for the mirrors, good for > the network, and good for the users. If they are forced to > download the DVD instead, that means they use three times > the resources that they currently do. > > I don't currently run a mirror because I don't have quite > enough bandwidth available, but if I were running a mirror > I'd rather serve up 1.2 GB to each of those users than 4 GB. > -- > Ray Morris > support at bettercgi.com > Duh! Yeah! What he said! ;-) I mean, I strongly agree with Ray Morris. Regards Maulvi -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-mirror/attachments/20110611/8709490f/attachment-0006.html>