[MPlayer-dev-eng] planned pre-release date

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 12:52:45PM +0200, Attila Kinali wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 00:16:38 +0200
> Arpi <arpi at thot.banki.hu> wrote:
> 
> > after 0.60pre and 0.60 final it was around avg. 300kbyte/sec for ~ 3 weeks
> > (~ 60000 downloads of tarballs and >2000000 hits on web).
> > since that it's between avg 100..200 kbyte/s.
> > 
> > no special peak load, as there are always ~20-50 users downlaoding something
> > slowly so even in 5min avg (MRTG) it's always under 300-400 kbyte/s.
> > 
> > and note it was 0.60...
> > at 0.50 it was ~100 kbyte/s, so we may expect 500k+ for next release
> > and >300 concurrent connections...
> 
> What about also using mplayer.ethz.ch ? it would be simple to write
> in php a load sharing mechanism (ie direct one d/l to www2 the next one to ethz).
> Beside ethz.ch has a quite good connection (2Gbit/s, but i think the webserver
> has only a 100mbit card :)

Redirects are a pain for various reasons. Round-robin dns makes a
whole lot more sense.

Rich