In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Homer
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on Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:03:00 +0100
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> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>> ____/ bluefin on Wednesday 18 June 2008 19:23 : \____
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>>> I read an article from PCWORLD that FF3 is a huge file of 7.9MB,
>>> and their server is burning . . .
>
> 7.9MB is "huge" now?
>
> When did that happen?
>
> time wget
> http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.0/linux-i686/en-GB/firefox-3.0.tar.bz2
>
> real 0m11.810s
My readings indicate:
11530763 mozilla-firefox-3.0.tar.bz2
10042 mozilla-firefox-3.0-patches-0.1.tar.bz2
Admittedly, this is source code, since I'm using Gentoo.
>
>> There was a blackout. 14,000 downloads per minute, IIRC. That's about
>> 2 gigs a second. Some datacentres handles this throughput nicely.
>
> They should use GeoIP mirror redirects, like Sourceforge.
>
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