[74] in installers
Re: Eudora 3.0.2 installer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alicia Allen)
Mon May 12 22:28:28 1997
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970512204252.00917c50@hesiod>
Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 22:28:17 -0400
To: "Paul B. Hill" <pbh@MIT.EDU>, installers@MIT.EDU
From: Alicia Allen <iggy@MIT.EDU>
Cc: pgalt@MIT.EDU, iggy@MIT.EDU
At 8:42 PM -0400 5/12/97, Paul B. Hill wrote:
>
>Yes, it does not seem to be feasible at this time. So far in general use,
>it appears that the installers to not overload the server. The system was
>designed to install software, not to teach a class. Scaling to teach a
>class was not part of our requirements. This is unfortunate but true, I
>just didn't realize that people would be trying to perform this task in a
>class situation.
The only part I'm not understanding here, is that 7 people installing the
software at once is too many? OK, if you say so, I'll buy that. However,
when we tried to have just one person install the software, that wasn't
possible either. Since I have never had net-dist tell me that there were
too many people doing anonymous ftp at once, I'm confused. Does net-dist
have really that high of a load? Or did we happen to run into a very busy
time? Or is there something else about the installer that I'm not
understanding? We had no problem with 7 people downloading the installer
at the exact same time, and that was also anonymous ftp to net-dist.
As far as I am aware, we haven't gotten complaints from Tether users, I
hope that we do not.
thanks!
Alicia
Alicia Allen
iggy@mit.edu (617) 253-0191
Computing Help Desk MIT, 11-226
