[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 5.1 Released!

[Ken Smith]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 06:24:06PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote:

> On the other hand -- When someone from the RE team posts
> a message to hubs@ like "5.1 for i386 available now!",
> I guess many people will start their sync jobs immediately.
> That's already some kind of "push".  So there's the same
> load situation, except everyone has started the thing
> manually, instead of having it initiated automatically.

Yup.  But that's arguably a "special case".  If you can fold the special
case into what you use for day-to-day stuff that's great.  But sometimes
it's best to design the system for the day-to-day stuff and leave the
special cases as special cases.  Depends on how often the special cases
come along.

> If the load is really a serious problem, then the "push"
> notifications can be sent out with a certain delay between
> them.  I'm sure it can be done.

It's all software.  You can make it do anything you want. :-)

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