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[cross-project-issues-dev] Callisto maintenance release

Folks,

Just in case anyone has been keeping track, our bandwidth has been saturated since the Callisto maintenance release. My initial suspicion is that many people don't bother to pick a mirror site in the Eclipse Update Manager because the Main site is selected by default.

I ran some numbers off the Apache logs of a server this morning:
Total hits to download/update.eclipse.org in the last 7 hours: 501,475
Total hits where the user agent is "Java/1.": 480,911
Total hits where "zip" is in the URL: 4725

This means 96% of the traffic to download/update.eclipse.org is coming from Eclipse UM, whereas very few ZIP files are downloaded from the main site.

I'll most likely add some rewrite rules to intercept direct requests for JAR files and redirect them to download.php so that a nearby mirror can serve them. This has worked well in the past.

I know multiple bugs/enhancements are open for the UM, but for future releases, is it possible to list the Main site last, as we do it on the web pages? The mirrors list is already sorted best->worst from a client's perspective by looking up, on-the-fly, each client's location on the planet.

Thanks,

Denis




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