> Shouldn't Linux cache the file in memory anyway? Serve the file of a > ram drive? dunno. sounds nice tho! >>I need to plan hardware/bandwidth wise to make sure this process works >>smoothly. Should i be looking at a dedicate box to run this? Currently >>its going on our main server which has other things like qmail, apache, >>and jabber servers running on it. > > > Have some kind of queing mechanism so all clients don't just start > downloading at the same time? > (I really don't see you having a problem with this as long as the pipe > is there) well, if there are 100 units in a given group, the units dont have the concept of acutall time, they just cound seconds (or some other time unit) since boot, and that should result in a random distribution of the download attempts over the period of the phone home interval. When a unit phones home, it then counts until untill the phone home interval passes again. So, if an update is posted at 4pm, most of the units *should* phone home with an hour of that, they wont all call home at the same time. _that_ would be a bandwidth crunch! thanks duncan -- Duncan Shannon Non-Profit Web hosting and design http://www.npohost.org _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list