On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 03:49:31PM -0500, Sean Davis wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 07:42:04PM +0100, Christian Biere wrote:
> > Mike M. Volokhov wrote:
> > > Hmm... How a mirrors may update your copies when main server doesn't
> > > respond?
> > 
> > You see, that's the problem. People overload the main server =>
> > mirrors can't update either => people using mirrors try using the
> > main server => people overload the main server => [loop detected].
> > 
> > I don't understand why people want to use the main server at all.
> > The mirrors are usually much faster (that's even more true for ftp).
> 
> Usually? I've never seen a mirror be faster than anoncvs since they
> upgraded. And the old anoncvs server was able to handle a *LOT* more
> concurrent users than this one with its resource limits. It would get slow,

That's false.