Re: 2.6.12-rc3-mm1

Randy.Dunlap
2005-05-03T00:38:37Z

On Mon, 2 May 2005 15:20:19 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote:

| 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...

Using http: can also happen by going to http://www.kernel.org
and right-clicking on 2.6.xx-rcN-mmM and downloading it via
a browser... (or however the browser du jour does it).

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~Randy