[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 5.1 Released!

[Ken Smith]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 03:48:46PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote:

> How about some kind of a "push model"?

One disadvantage other than the design/implementation work is load
on the source.  Isn't ftp-master suffering a little bit even now?
What happens if all of the first-tier servers are told to do updates
at the same time?

The cron job based updates at least have the advantage of "naturally"
spreading the load on ftp-master out over time a little bit I would
think.  My cron jobs running in the wee hours of the morning run at
a different time than the cron jobs running in the wee hours of the
morning in Australia.  :-)

Those issues might be worked out.  I don't know if it was a concern
in the other push models someone else cited.

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