--=-K58Cow0z4Pmm0tujKrxy Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >=20 > and adding a variable parsed from yum.conf to control just how long you > randomly sleep: >=20 > print randrange(random_delay) >=20 > is better yet. =20 >=20 > This is a function of expected server load -- somebody with only five > hosts updating from a single server might prefer to set random_delay to > zero and just do them all at once, or set it to one minute to spread > them out a few seconds. Somebody with several hundred hosts sync'ing > from a single server might want the updates spread out over the current > default three hours. A variable in yum.conf is autodocumenting and > gives the admin person obvious and simple control. >=20 I hate it when you have perfectly valid points :) this makes sense - it might be useful to have a yum -r option that randomizes how long before it executes - defaulting to off, of course. -sv --=-K58Cow0z4Pmm0tujKrxy Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQA9KcSk1Aj3x2mIbMcRApUAAKCDkGOhHNUS6dPhZO+krpyj9MnDigCfVHoX dIpPvDS4/QSVY216T4rJmW0= =Tq88 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-K58Cow0z4Pmm0tujKrxy--
