On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Piyush Khandelwal wrote: > Pretty much the same thing I was about to ask. If you can provide some > estimates, I can check with the sysadmins here at texas if they are > fine with the extra load. I'll have to defer to Felix on that question. But, independent of how many users you have, I would guess that the periodic (currently weekly) download of the tarballs would dominate the bandwidth usage. At the moment, the tarballs total 11GB (http://ros.org/wiki_dump/). For reference, ros.org/wiki got ~750K page views in the past 30 days. brian. > On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Benjamin Cohen wrote: >> Brian & Felix, >> >> How much traffic can be expected from a mirror when ros.org is working >> correctly and when it's not?  I would be interested to know how much >> bandwidth is expected to be used by a mirror server per month?  If it's not >> too much I'll see about setting one up at penn. >> >> -- ben >> >> >> >> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Brian Gerkey >> wrote: >>> >>> hi, >>> >>> With the recent disk crash and then blackout at Willow, we've all >>> experienced the pain of not being able to access the wiki.  Hopefully >>> it'll be a while before the next outage, but it will surely come, for >>> one reason or another. >>> >>> So, two requests for help: >>> >>> (1) It would be nice to have another couple of mirrors of the wiki. >>> Felix Endres maintains one at Freiburg >>> (http://ros.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/roswiki/), and he documented >>> his process for setting it up >>> (http://answers.ros.org/question/977/create-a-rosorg-wiki-mirror). >>> Any volunteers for hosting more mirrors?  Two in North America (east >>> coast and west coast), and one in Asia ought to do it. >>> >>> (2) The wiki export system is primitive, to say the least.  This >>> ticket describes some important missing features, and includes the >>> script that we're using to do the export: >>> https://code.ros.org/trac/ros/ticket/3281.  Any volunteers to work on >>> improving the export system?  E.g., we might be able to use Moin's own >>> synchronization system (I wasn't able to make it work, but I'm sure >>> that somebody can).  And there's probably a way to dump the whole >>> thing into a PDF, which some people might prefer for offline viewing. >>> >>>        thanks, >>>        brian. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> ros-users mailing list >>> ros-users@code.ros.org >>> https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ros-users mailing list >> ros-users@code.ros.org >> https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >> >> > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > -- http://brian.gerkey.org