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The aftermath of our mirroring
Since our mirrors of the Valles Marinerismovie clips have been running fortwo days now, it's time to look at how things turned out. I'll startwith the raw numbers:
- On Monday, we transfered 198.64 gigabytes in 7,781 requests, despitenot getting much traffic until about 10am Eastern time.
- On Tuesday, we transfered 316.36 gigabytes in 13,979 requests.
(At a later date I may wrangle
三月十五日
但就算今日不眠不休地寫,應該也是寫不完的。本週內吧。本週內一定要寫完。 我已經把書看了,

Some problems with iostat on Linux
I was recently reminded that Linux's iostat command is what I call'overly helpful'. It's not that it lies to you, exactly; it's that iostat is a little bit too eager to please people reading its output,particularly iostat -x output. There are a number of issues.
(The rest of this assumes that you're familiar with the iostat -x fields.)
The fatally flawed field is svctm , the 'average service time' forIOs. It would be
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Fur係用黎當雨褸著既
當一個落緊大雨既10度既夜晚,
當一個放工時落緊大雨既10度既夜晚,
當一個女仔放工時落緊大雨既10度既夜晚,
當一個著住Fur既女仔放工時落緊大雨既10度既夜晚,
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Preparing a high load web mirror setup
I spent a chunk of this weekend preparing a mirror for a high loadenvironment. The mirror only needs to serve a couple of largevideo clips , but they're going to be linked from a high traffic website , so we expect a lot of (simultaneous)connections and a lot of outgoing bandwidth.
I made a generic mirror url, using a new hostname that I had to put intoa new sub-zone in our DNS . Right now it has two A records, each with a five minute TTL
