Re: Would anyone be willing to host a second kernel.org site?

From: Larry McVoy (lm@bitmover.com)
Date: Sat Jan 19 2002 - 20:30:01 EST


On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 05:18:57PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Followup to: <20020119171013.T30683@work.bitmover.com>
> By author: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> > We've priced this lately and I think the cheapest you are looking at is
> > around $6500/month for a 25Mbit connection. That's not a huge amount of
> > money but it's enough that it shows up on people's radar screens as a line
> > item, it's $80K/year, so there would have to be some justification.
>
> No doubt. In this similar vein, it's probably good to point out to
> people just how much ISC's contribution to kernel.org is actually
> worth...

No kidding. I didn't realize they were hosting it, that's very nice
of them.

Do you have any statistics on what percentage of the download traffic
is whole kernels versus patches? If most of the traffic is whole kernels,
I think I might be able to offer up a fix for that.

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