From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264153AbUE1WUK (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 May 2004 18:20:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264108AbUE1WRb (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 May 2004 18:17:31 -0400 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([63.209.29.2]:33689 "EHLO hera.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264154AbUE1WQT (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 May 2004 18:16:19 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin) Subject: Re: ftp.kernel.org Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 22:15:20 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Transmeta Corporation, Santa Clara CA Message-ID: References: <200405280941.38784.m.watts@eris.qinetiq.com> <20040528062141.GA18118@cox.net> <20040528150119.GE18449@thunk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: terminus.zytor.com 1085782520 25836 127.0.0.1 (28 May 2004 22:15:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@terminus.zytor.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 22:15:20 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Followup to: <20040528150119.GE18449@thunk.org> By author: "Theodore Ts'o" In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > The main problem with rsync that I can see is that it is fairly heavy > weight on the server, so many servers (including mirrors.kernel.org) > have a maximum number of connections set to something pathetically > small, like say 5 connections. > Eh? mirrors.kernel.org currently allows 100 connections, this might be a bit too low, but if so please let us know. As far as *we can see* it's not a problem. Disabling recursive listings in ftpd saved more CPU than rsync uses. -hpa