Re: How git affects kernel.org performance

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Jan 7 2007 10:49, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 11:50:57 +0100 (MET) Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> On Jan 7 2007 10:03, Willy Tarreau wrote:
>> >On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 12:58:38AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> >> >[..]
>> >> >entries in directories with millions of files on disk. I'm not
>> >> >certain it would be that easy to try other filesystems on
>> >> >kernel.org though :-/
>> >> 
>> >> Changing filesystems would mean about a week of downtime for a server. 
>> >> It's painful, but it's doable; however, if we get a traffic spike during 
>> >> that time it'll hurt like hell.
>> 
>> Then make sure noone releases a kernel ;-)
>
>maybe the week of LCA ?

I don't know that acronym, but if you ask me when it should happen:
_Before_ the next big thing is released, e.g. before 2.6.20-final.
Reason: You never know how long they're chewing [downloading] on 2.6.20.
Excluding other projects on kernel.org from my hypothesis, I'd suppose the
lowest bandwidth usage the longer no new files have been released. (Because
everyone has them then more or less.)


	-`J'
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