From 41e89228c2ac5d6217d9cfc0277887f2be283af0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: onefang Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2020 17:24:45 +1000 Subject: Note about the server that's running the tests being extra speedy. --- apt-panopticon-report-email-web.lua | 1 + explanations.html | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/apt-panopticon-report-email-web.lua b/apt-panopticon-report-email-web.lua index 27353ad..44e91d9 100755 --- a/apt-panopticon-report-email-web.lua +++ b/apt-panopticon-report-email-web.lua @@ -485,6 +485,7 @@ if nil == web then C("opening mirrors file - " .. e) else "

TIMEOUT or TIMEOUT" .. " means the mirror had too many timeouts, and tests where aborted, so there is no result for this test.

" .. "

NOTE: timeouts may be due to a problem on the testing computer, it might be busy with other things, or be having it's own network problems..

" .. + "

NOTE: the speed of the server this checking script is running on might be wildly exaggerated, it doesn't have to go through the Internet to download from itself.

" "

The DNS round robin (DNS-RR) column shows the IPs for that mirror, or no if it isn't part of the DNS-RR.   " .. "The IPs link to the testing log for that IP accessed via the DNS-RR.   " .. APT.options.roundRobin.value .. " is the DNS-RR itself, so it doesn't get tested directly.

\n" .. diff --git a/explanations.html b/explanations.html index 7e2878d..73820c8 100644 --- a/explanations.html +++ b/explanations.html @@ -79,6 +79,8 @@ For actual packages, pick the smallest one that has been recently updated. It does this by measuring the reported speeds from the curl commands that actually download files.   Since apt-panopticon is trying hard to download everything from all mirrors all at the same time, this guess will be low.   Also, the computer running the apt-panopticon might have a network connection that is busy with other things.   +Not to mention that obviously if the computer this is running on is one of the mirrors, it might get a wildly exaggerated speed, +not haaving to go through the rest of the Internet tends to help.   Finally, the tested mirror may have a bigger network connection than the computer running the test, so wont show it's true maximum.   So take this speed measurement with a grain of salt, it's more of an indication, the full graphs might be useful.

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