CVS Questions

[Jerry McAllister]

> 
> I was contemplating banging together a quick script to find the fastest 
> CVS mirrors which essentially tries to retrieve a small distribution from 
> all the available CVS servers.  Does this seem like the type of thing that 
> would be well-recieved into the base-distro or ports?  Or would it simply 
> be seen as putting extra load on the CVS servers?

The problem is that the response you would get would be only valid
for where you are running the script.   Every host in the world would
get different results, because they would have different conditions
and connections.    

Having one person running something like that wouldn't put much
load on anything, but, if everyone in FreeBSD land fired something
like that up everytime they were to download stuff, it was add 
unnecessary load.

> An optional thing I would be interested in putting in this is the ability 
> to disfavor any server which was close to its access limit.  Is there any 
> support in the protocol for knowing which user out of how many you are?
> 
> -Dan Mahoney
> 
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