On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 08:51:35AM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: >> into it, and it's in the middle of his priorities somewhere between >> "actual urgent work" and "other actual important work"), but >> preliminary stats show a big drop in i686 mirror connections over the >> last year — like, about cut in half. I'm not sure if this is a glitch >> or representative of a real move — or whether it's because of perceived >> or actual changes we've made, or just because people's old hardware is >> hitting an end-of-life wall. > > For previous years, the percentage of hits to the mirror server (one IP > counted per day) looks like this: > > 2007 - 85.3% > 2008 - 80.6% > 2009 - 76.9% > 2010 - 71.5% > 2011 - 65.4% > 2012 - 56.2% > 2013 - 46.0% > 2014 - 35.7% > 2015 - 22.1% > > So, roughly 5 percentage points lost the each year until 2012, and 10 > points a year after that. The average so far of 2016 is 17.9%, but > that's a little deceptive because of the big drop I mentioned above — > it's in the 20s at the beginning of the year, but around summer dropped > to 15% or so and is now around 12% - so looks like the drop-10 pattern > will hold again. We'll see if it goes to 2% in 2017, though! > For those who have really old systems, I've been fixing *tons* of i386 regressions affecting older machines. Some of these regressions seem to be several years old at least. These machines may be so old that Fedora *userspace* won't run on them, but if you want to keep that old 80486 working, give 4.9 or 4.10 a try :) To the kernel maintainers: one of these bugs could (according to the SDM) potentially affect even rather new machines and cause them to hang in early boot. --Andy _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
