Quality of Service - what would we do without it!
Eclipse 3.2.1 was just released to the Grand Public, and our bandwidth is now maxed out - as usual. Luckily our network infrastructure is configured with elaborate Quality of Service (QoS) rules, meaning CVS, Bugzilla and our websites get priority access to outgoing bandwidth. Downloads get stuck at the end of the queue with whatever’s left.
To test this in action, I use my 5 Mbps cable connection at home and wget (also available for that other OS). I’m usually good for 550 KB/s downloads from eclipse.org when we’re not saturated, so let’s see what happens.
Test 1: download an SDK from from download.eclipse.org using wget (no QoS):
bash-3.00$ wget http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/R-3…etc
[snip ] 66.12K/s
Test 2: download a large file from https://dev.eclipse.org (with QoS):
bash-3.00$ wget https://dev.eclipse.org/access_log.2.gz
[snip] 476.67K/s
Same servers, same Internet connection, different packet priority == fast website, CVS and Bugzilla (as fast as Bugzilla can be) even when we’re overloaded with download requests. How neat is that?
Posted September 28th, 2006 by Denis Roy in category: Uncategorized
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Doug Schaefer Says:
September 29th, 2006 at 6:33 am
Great work guys! I still remember the days when we had to pretty much work on other things right after a release since CVS and bugzilla access was slow and flaky. At the time we thought it was cool that so many people were killing the link. But it did eventually get annoying. Now, you don’t even notice…