Re: 2.6.12-rc3-mm1

[Valdis . Kletnieks]

On Sun, 01 May 2005 15:30:40 +0200, Adrian Bunk said:

> How much bandwith does this require?
> 
> Currently, 2.6.12-rc3-mm1 requires 3.7 MB for the -rc3 patch (which can 
> be used for several -mm patches) plus 2.6 MB for the -mm patch.
> 
> The 47 MB download for 2.6.11 are required only once for the many -mm 
> kernels between 2.6.11 and 2.6.12.
> 
> Looking at these numbers, the average download required for every -mm 
> kernel is currently far below 10 MB.

And even *more* importantly, note that when downloading a -mm or -rc3 patch,
there's minimal server overhead - it opens *one* file and streams it to the
FTP connection.  sendfile() anybody? ;)

How many open/close/etc are needed to sync up 2 'git' mirrors?  I don't care *how*
stupendous git/mercurial/whatever are, they're going to have a *really* hard time
getting down to the overhead of an FTP session sending a .bz2 file.

Unless of course, there's only me and a dozen other people even *trying* -mm
kernels and the distinction is lost in the noise... (Out of curiosity, how
many downloads *DO* the -mm kernels get?  I know Linus and Andrew want more
testing.. let's keep that in mind here.. ;)

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