ANN: Closing AC

[Jakub Bogusz]

On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 02:00:51AM +0100, Adam Gołębiowski wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 07:43:17PM -0500, Andrew A. Gill wrote:
> > On Sun, 11 Dec 2005, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> > > On Sunday 11 December 2005 01:07, Andrew A. Gill wrote:
> > >> On Sat, 10 Dec 2005, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> > >>> smaller sets of architectures.
> > >>
> > >> What do you mean?
> > > lftp ftp.pld-linux.org:/dists> ls th/PLD
> > > drwxr-xr-x   4 pldth    users          33 Sep 16  2004 SRPMS
> > > drwxr-xr-x   8 pldth    users          82 Sep  8  2004 athlon
> > > drwxr-xr-x   8 pldth    users          82 Sep  8  2004 i486
> > > drwxr-xr-x   8 pldth    users          82 Sep  8  2004 i686
> > > drwxr-xr-x   3 pldth    users          17 Oct  7  2004 noarch
> > > drwxr-xr-x   7 pldth    users          67 Sep  8  2004 ppc
> > > drwxr-xr-x   7 pldth    users          67 Sep  8  2004 x86_64
> > 
> > No more Alpha?  That means I can't use PLD anymore!
> 
> I just did a look at logs (last 4 weeks) of our primary ftp. It turns
> out that we have just a few alpha users. Here's the result of:
> 
> # zgrep alpha xferlog* | awk '{print $7}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -k 1 -r | nl -nln 
> 
> No	No of entries	IP
> 1          6707 	83.243.104.2
> 2          3718 	80.85.231.62
> 3          1290		217.11.152.118
> 4           330 	149.156.119.10
> (...)
> 
> The rest was 206 connections from different IPs, out of which 190 was 10
> or less entries. 
> 
> Logs from ftp4 shows there were no connections related to alpha. 
> 
> It looks like we have 4 alpha users out there. Maybe a little more if
> they use http based access or different servers. Still not much.

+1 or 2.
I'm using local rsynced mirror. ankry probably too?

> On the other hand, stats for ppc or sparc show that there is also small
> user base - 18 and 13 IPs respectively with 10 or more entries.

So it's similar to Debian's archs popularity report I posted some time ago:
i386 > x86_64 > ppc(32) > sparc > alpha > others (incl. ia64, ppc64, s390*)

And if we are planning to add some new architecture (like ia64 or ppc64,
of which we thought already), we should add sparc and alpha first :P


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