-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Matt, Doesnt this have to go to fedora-infrastructure-list? Do you want this to be included in the fedora-news. The news usually records things which have been sent to fedora-lists, fedora blogs etc. Matt Domsch wrote: > (for consideration for FWN, thanks.) > > Tonight I deployed a slight update to MirrorManager that I'd been > wanting to do for a while. The basic selection algorithm for choosing > the order in which to return mirrors to clients remains the same: > prefer same netblocks, internet2 in same country if on internet2, same > country, same continent, then global, in that order. However, until > now, faster mirrors (those with larger bandwidths) were returned with > equal probability as slower mirrors. This means not enough traffic > was being sent to our gigabit-connected mirrors, and too much traffic > was being sent to our slower mirrors. > > Each mirror's bandwidth value is now used as a weight. Mirrors with > larger bandwidth will have a a higher probability of being returned > earlier in the mirrorlist selection. Slower mirrors can still be > returned as the first mirrorlist selection because this is based on > probabilities, but should not be overwhelmed anymore. > > For countries with fewer mirrors, such as India, where there's some > relatively fast mirrors, and several relatively slower mirrors, this > should mean that users will more often get directed to the faster > mirrors. > > Thanks, > Matt > Fedora Mirror Wrangler > - -- Regards, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala, RHCE, CCNA (IRC: huzaifas) Research and Development Lead, Global Help Desk, Pune Phone: +91 20 4005 7322 (UTC +5.5) GnuPG Fingerprint: 3A0F DAFB 9279 02ED 273B FFE9 CC70 DCF2 DA5B DAE5 Visit the Help Desk portal at : http://helpdesk.corp.redhat.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Red Hat - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIaGiEzHDc8tpb2uURAnReAJ0fQeZMgzCzoe7uml8evOVsLi4etgCfSQKJ Cf9RUUCs9W2W+CeBSRWy5GE= =6/C1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Fedora-news-list mailing list Fedora-news-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-news-list
