Front page | perl.perl5.porters |
Postings from April 2008
On Monday 28 April 2008 19:52:28 you wrote: > On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Tels wrote: [snip] > It is my understanding that these numbers represent downloads from > unique IP addresses per day. This was done primarily to disregard > download "accelerators" that open multiple parallel connections and > just request a chunk of the file (I have no idea if these > applications exists to overcome high latency, but they seem to be > used mostly from connections originating from Asia). Their presence > was significantly distorting the statistics). > > So unless these bots use lots of different IP addresses they should > only be counted once. This is also compensated somewhat by not > counting multiple downloads from the same institution on the same day > multiple time (for example someone downloading and installing > ActivePerl on 20 machines within the same company on the same day). > > Finally, the download numbers for e.g. the AIX builds were > comparatively really small (I can't remember the number, but maybe > just 1% of the Windows downloads). I would have expected any bots > from downloading all directories indiscriminately, which again points > to bots being just a small percentage of the overall numbers. Ah okay thanx for the explanation :) With bots, you never know[0]. All the best, Tels 0: I had some crawl my entire photo collection multiple times. Not fun. -- Signed on Mon Apr 28 20:48:26 2008 with key 0x93B84C15. Get one of my photo posters: http://bloodgate.com/posters PGP key on http://bloodgate.com/tels.asc or per email. "I am soo clumsy today." *crash*Thread Previous | Thread Next