Gentoo Archives: gentoo-mirrors

From: Adrian Sandor <aditsu@×××××.com>
To: "gentoo-mirrors@l.g.o" <gentoo-mirrors@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-mirrors] rsync processes
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:42:44
Message-Id: 1316112148.30053.YahooMailNeo@web160612.mail.bf1.yahoo.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-mirrors] rsync processes by Jeremy Olexa
1 > From: Jeremy Olexa <darkside@g.o>
2
3 >
4 > On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Adrian Sandor <aditsu@×××××.com> wrote:
5 >
6 >> I'm using masterdistfiles.gentoo.org ; the server is located in Asia
7 > (Hong Kong) so neither US nor Europe is "close".
8 >
9 > Of course, by 'close' I meant via ping/latency/network, not
10 > geographical location.
11 > -Jeremy
12 >
13
14 Yeah but they are related too (due to the speed of light if nothing else).
15 Anyway:
16
17 ping masterdistfiles.gentoo.org
18 PING rsync.osuosl.org (64.50.233.100) 56(84) bytes of data.
19 64 bytes from ftp-nyc.osuosl.org (64.50.233.100): icmp_req=1 ttl=50 time=301 ms
20 [...]
21 --- rsync.osuosl.org ping statistics ---
22 10 packets transmitted, 10 received, 0% packet loss, time 9066ms
23 rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 286.854/292.275/301.749/5.198 ms
24
25 ping masterdistfiles-us.gentoo.org
26 PING rsync.osuosl.org (64.50.236.52) 56(84) bytes of data.
27 64 bytes from ftp-chi.osuosl.org (64.50.236.52): icmp_req=1 ttl=51 time=238 ms
28 [...]
29 --- rsync.osuosl.org ping statistics ---
30 10 packets transmitted, 10 received, 0% packet loss, time 9009ms
31 rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 232.765/233.949/238.296/2.030 ms
32
33 ping masterdistfiles-eu.gentoo.org
34 PING kea.gentoo.org (194.116.84.30) 56(84) bytes of data.
35 64 bytes from kea.gentoo.org (194.116.84.30): icmp_req=1 ttl=51 time=340 ms
36 [...]
37 --- kea.gentoo.org ping statistics ---
38 10 packets transmitted, 10 received, 0% packet loss, time 9152ms
39 rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 340.814/341.800/347.640/2.111 ms
40
41 Looks like the -us one has slightly lower latency. Don't know about bandwidth.
42
43 Adrian