Here's a crazy thought... Why didn't they contact some mirror sites and put it up silently BEFORE announcing it was ready to download? Then it could have been out there which would reduce the load on any one server and also alleviate this headache. The point of it being a RHN subscriber specialty was clearly marketing hype since everyone and anyone can get it now off some mirror sites and bit-torrent (among other places), and I suspect in the next few days it will be even more widespread. > -----Original Message----- > From: shrike-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:shrike-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jesse Keating > Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 11:28 PM > To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: what is being done to address the RHN/download problems? > > > On Tuesday 01 April 2003 22:44, J Sloan uttered: > > Either that, or red hat could pay for some > > fatter pipes themselves... > > You do realize that just ONE RHN site was pushing out over > .5GB/s sustained > all day monday right? Have you any idea what that kind of > bandwidth COSTS? > Not to mention that they added even MORE that night. > > I think it's going to take quite a few more RHN subscriptions > before they can > afford even FATTER pipes.
