Re: 2.6.12-rc3-mm1

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>
> On Mon, 02 May 2005 08:49:30 PDT, "Randy.Dunlap" said:
> 
> > Last I heard, Andrew had access to kernel.org transfer logs,
> > but the problem is that we can't tell anything about the download
> > counts from mirrors.
> 
> Have to admit, I'm always hitting the kernel.org one, because that's the
> URL that Andrew puts in the announcements.  Probably a lot of others do
> so as well - so figure if half the people bother using a mirror rather
> than just going clicky-click, the kernel.org logs will reflect the other
> half.  Probably not perfect, but probably good enough to tell how many
> digits are in the number at least.
> 
> (I'll go out on a limb and say "barely 3 digit's worth of downloads")...

More that you'd expect.

2.6.11-mm1.gz and 2.6.11-mm1.bz2 were downloaded from kernel.org from 1729
unique IP addresses using http and from an additional 321 unique IP
addresses using ftp.

The fact that most people bother to alter the URL from ftp: to http:
perhaps means that more people than I expect also bothered to stick the
country code in there too.  Who knows...