More problems with egcs.cygnus.com

[Martin v. Loewis]

> I checked, and there is a nominal 10 kB/s throughput to gcc.gnu.org
> per TCP session.  :-( There are 37 ftps going, and 5 cvswebs, and 15
> httpd and 2 cvses (if I counted everything correctly) and one active
> incoming spider from lycos.  Around 46 active data pumpers.
> 
> I could probably ask Paul if he would host the gcc machine on his
> OC-12, if we wanted to.  He might be willing.  That would cure the
> bandwidth issue I think.  The connectivity quality would be excellent
> (think what it takes to host 80% of the world's dns traffic for all
> the root servers).  :-)

In case you need further encouragement to help taking load off/
increasing bandwidth for gcc.gnu.org: Please do something about it!
:-)

Starting with moving the ftp service somewhere else may not be such a
bad idea, in case moving the entire machine is a
problem. Unfortunately, there is no automatic redirect built into ftp,
is there?

Regards,
Martin