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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