[mirror-admin] Request for bandwidth consumption data from India.

[Matt Domsch]

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:04:39AM +0530, susmit shannigrahi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> There is a talk of mirroring fedora at NIXI[1] and they want to know
> how much hit India generates. So I could use some help here.
> 
> It would be very nice if you please let me know how much hit you get
> from India (total bandwidth consumption). The data of last month(sept)
> will do nicely.
> 
> Thanks a lot for your help.
> 
> [1] www.nixi.in

Susmit, having a mirror at NIXI would be fantastic.  Thank you for
looking into it.

Because of the way we mirror, there's no single aggregation point for
such statistics.  While Prof. Sriram can give you stats from his
mirror, that doesn't tell the whole picture.

https://fedoraproject.org/awstats/mirrors.fedoraproject.org/#countries
shows stats for the current month-to-date.  You see India as the #7
country requesting Fedora content from the mirror system.  The
bandwidth numbers there are small only becuase mirrors.fp.o simply
issues 30x redirects - it doesn't reflect the size of the actual
content being requested.

India accounts for about 3% of the total hits to
mirrors.fedoraproject.org in the current month.  We believe we have
about 143Gbits/sec bandwidth _available_ across our entire public
mirror system.  So one very crude guess would be 4.3Gbits total
available to India.  However, we aren't consuming that full
143Gbits/sec constantly, so overall the number is going to be
smaller.  On release days, and days we push larger package sets (such
as updates to openoffice.org), we can consume the full bandwidth
available on any given mirror, especially in countries such as India
where we have a strong user base, and few mirrors.

An additional Gigabit-connected mirror would be more than welcome, and
I'm sure we can saturate whatever bandwidth can be donated.

Thanks,
Matt
Fedora Mirror Wrangler

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