[fab] Metrics: What we *could* get

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 21:25 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
> On 10/10/06, Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs at math.uh.edu> wrote:
> > >>>>> "sv" == seth vidal <skvidal at linux.duke.edu> writes:
> >
> > sv> or that someone bought a .kz domain.
> >
> > That host resolves to two IP addresses; both are allocated out of RIPE
> > space to companies in Kazakhstan; a trace to one goes via a
> > terrestrial route via Moscow and the other traces through IntelSat.
> >
> > So it's really in KZ.
> >
> >  - J<
> >
> 
> So now the question is how to count something like our current mirrors
> leader at present the top 'ip' has over 16,000 hits.  12 days in
> that's over 1,300 hits per day.  If we assume that the machines 'phone
> home' 1 time per day, that's 1300 machines that might get counted as
> one.
> 
> Perhaps our best bet is to count these groups as 1 install on the low
> end, and 1300 on the high end.  I'm working on getting some usable
> scripts together for the raw numbers and I'd like more input for the
> logic.
> 
> Thoughts?  Would this discussion be more appropriate on fedora-devel?

the machines using the yum-updatesd phone home about 24 times a day.

I believe it is set to once an hour by default.

-sv