Comments on the fastestmirror plugin

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On 03/13/2010 11:06 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

> Sadly, downloading a "small" RPM is unlikely to give very reliable
> results either. Due to TCP slow-start, a stable effective b/w may only
> be reached after some 10's of kb have been downloaded.
> 
> This is not an easy problem to solve.
> 
> poc
> 

 Perhaps instead of thinking about deterministic solution ..

 How about monte carlo samping the mirrors - some small number of draws
(n)- choose best of those - then next update - do another MC sample -
every update take n more draws -  after a while it should converge to a
number of decent mirrors. In fact one could even break the update up
into sub components - and run in parallel.

  gene/