[Savannah-hackers] Re: subversions hda disk (continued)

[Adam C Powell IV]

Mathieu Roy wrote:

> "Tom E. Turner" <address@hidden> said:
>  
>
> >   Does "use of" means that we can have full access and dedication of the
> >   box to a specific purpose, say Savannah?
That's up to Kurt since it's his cluster, but it's fine with me.

> >   Regards,
> >
> >   -- 
> >   Mathieu Roy
> >
> > MIT Prof. Adam Powell <address@hidden> said...
> >
> > Kurt has my go-ahead to use his cluster as needed.  
> > Just try not to generate too much traffic. :-)
> >
> > If you need an additional IP address, let me know 
> > and I'll see what I can come up with.
> >
> > So what is the bandwidth like on sv.gnu.org lately?
> > If it is really high we would probably have to pay 
> > around $20/month per dedicated IP address.
> >
> > and address@hidden asks...
> >
> > ... what kind of HD space reqs do you have? 
> >
> > If the FSF can see their way clear to spring 
> > for a Fiber Channel controller card, we can 
> > hook up that Fiber drive I got at last swapfest [?]
> >    
>
> We try to keep restrict bandwidth usage to projects development (and
> not projects usage). The current bandwidth we have is fine. I do not
> think it's really high (hum, actually, what is considered high?) but
> the usage increase and it would be problematic if month by month we
> have to pay increasing extra charges. 
>
> I do not really know exactly how much we consume, as I've got only
> stats for the whole switch we use, which seems to be used by others
> computers (Jaime or Loic could surely give more details).
>
> You can get an overview of our current box at
Thanks, that's helpful (though the "network usage" time period is not 
clear, is that 2-3 GB for the last 24 hours? Last 5 minutes?).

I don't know how much bandwidth is "a lot", and certainly having a 
Debian mirror on one of our machines makes that port high-bandwidth 
already.  But if the network people complain about traffic on our port, 
I think that will be the first thing to go -- with at least 24 hours 
notice to you.  (Then the Debian mirror, then the Linux kernel mirror.)

> Another important point: this is an IBM cluster, does this box run only
> Free Software? Is it acceptable to ask this? If not, we would be
> contradicting our own policies, which would be unwise I think.
> (I realise that the answer of this question may be obvious, but I
> prefer askin just in case) 
I can't answer that one.  Kurt?

Cheers,
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