Re: Please help spread the CVSup mirror load more evenly

[Brian Somers]

> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "David O'Brien" writes:
> : "load" on the mirror.  Where "load" is either one of the connection
> : slots, or actual kernel resource load if I have 20% packet loss and thus
> : cause a lot of retransmissions to occur.
> 
> Hmmm.  A thought just occurred to me.  There's no need to measure
> these things.  Lookup all the IP addresses.  Do a non blocking
> connection to each of these machines.  First one to come back with the
> REL16_1 response wins, and all the others get closed and you use that
> one.

I like this idea, except that some sort of consistency is required - 
ie, once I've started using cvsupX, I'd like to use it in preference 
to slightly better machines unless it stays bad for some configurable 
number of connections....

> Warner

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