Fedora 9 released, Thank You Mirrors!

re: Fedora 9 released, Thank You Mirrors!

Peter — Sat, 17 May 2008 00:06:20 GMT

Maybe the reason that the load on the servers was so light is because nobody really cares about Fedora anymore.

Please look at google trends comparison between Ubuntu and Feodra

http://www.google.com/trends?q=Fedora%2CUbuntu

Notice a major peak during Ubuntu 8.04 release and the absence of anything during Fedora 9 release.

re: Fedora 9 released, Thank You Mirrors!

Matt_Domsch_blog — Fri, 16 May 2008 23:35:29 GMT

@David: the Gb/sec number I gave is the simple addition of the claimed bandwidth of most of the mirrors that were live and active at the hour of the release, which was 70-90 worldwide. We're up to nearly 150 synced and active now. By all accounts, every mirror that MirrorManager listed as active was getting pounded, pumping data at their claimed max bandwidth (and a good number have charts to show this).

Typically the stats for the release are posted at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Statistics, so I won't be posting them myself separately. Smolt numbers appear here too. I just wanted to demonstrate how _this week_ it was critical we have our great mirrors.

MirrorManager actually saw a 50% increase in number of hits this week, as compared to average. That's still only about 16 hits/second.

re: Fedora 9 released, Thank You Mirrors!

David Timms — Fri, 16 May 2008 23:20:59 GMT

Matt, just to clarify some details, are the numbers you gave for Gb/sec the average transfer rate based on the total size of the download {eg live,dvd,x86_64} etc divided by the time taken {2 days} ?

I could imagine that:

1. For folks wanting to update to F9, the first step is the download - seeing connected torrent users speeds, there seems to be a lot of people who can't sustain more than + 3kB/sec or 6kB/sec; at that rate it will take them ~13 days to download the i386 dvd iso {assuming only connection to my torrent client}. I could conclude that 2 day DL figures indicate the number of people with fast broadband connections who are interested in F9.

2. The next step is deciding when is a reasonable time to backup, and reinstall. I imagine that might be a weekend, where you have more time to have your PC out of action. Perhaps you could provide an update of these stats first thing Monday morning ?

For those that are counted checking for updates, is that based on hits to the yum mirrorlist URL ? With a default check time of What does that work out to in hits/sec ?

It would be nice to mention smolt {opt-in} stats as well, as well as show some pretty graphs !

re: Fedora 9 released, Thank You Mirrors!

jef — Fri, 16 May 2008 16:47:34 GMT

That sounds sort of slick. I was thinking being able to see sort of bandwidth metric by country/region on a map would help encourage some potential mirrors to step forward in areas that are under served.

We could even do a more complicated map, which scaled available bandwidth in a country to the number of users asking for updates in that country. That would actually make for the best picture of mirror network 'health'.

-jef

re: Fedora 9 released, Thank You Mirrors!

Matt_Domsch_blog — Fri, 16 May 2008 16:03:12 GMT

@Jef: I added the maps, thanks for the reminder. We can add country bandwidth coloring after the next big enhancement to MirrorManager - sending users to mirrors based on weighting the bandwidth available on each mirror. Right now we treat all mirrors equally, while some have 10Gb pipes and some have 16Mbit pipes. It'll take some cleanup of the MM database to harmonize the data, then it'll be easily available to use on a map.

re: Fedora 9 released, Thank You Mirrors!

jef — Fri, 16 May 2008 15:44:30 GMT

How could you!?!

How could you forget to point people to the MAPS?

Like the mirrorlist map:
http://fedoraproject.org/maps/mirrorlist/f9.all.png

You so have to add a map link back in to the post, at least the mirrorlist activity map.

Speaking of which, would you be interested in coloring a global map by country on the basis of the total of transmitted data from mirrors in that country or a aggregate datarate for all mirrors in the country?

I've got the by country coloring working. I just need interesting country by country data to color by.

-jef