[HN Gopher] Serving 90TB/Day of Linux Updates from Thin Clients
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       Serving 90TB/Day of Linux Updates from Thin Clients
        
       Author : phirephly
       Score  : 73 points
       Date   : 2023-05-10 02:45 UTC (20 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (blog.thelifeofkenneth.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (blog.thelifeofkenneth.com)
        
       | nadermx wrote:
       | That amount of data a day is none trivial amount. Cool write up.
        
       | guenthert wrote:
       | Thin clients aren't mentioned and I don't see how they are
       | involved. Who writes such head lines?
        
         | krunck wrote:
         | Read.
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         | "... we settled on a design consisting of the following:
         | HP T620 thin client         2x4GB DIMMs         2TB M.2 SSD"
        
           | guenthert wrote:
           | I stand corrected (no excuses, I had my coffee already).
           | 
           | I managed to miss 'thin' when searching the web site (first
           | hit from where I was happened to be 'thinking' and then I saw
           | the Dell rack servers).
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           | So the "thin clients" (with local storage they look like
           | small PCs to me) are for the hottest content only: "Setting
           | the tiny mirror up only hosting Ubuntu ISOs, Extra Packages
           | for Enterprise Linux, and the CentOS repo for servers easily
           | exceeded our design objective of >1TB/day of network traffic.
           | Not a replacement for traditional "heavy iron" mirrors that
           | can host a longer tail of projects, but this is 1TB of
           | network traffic which we were able to peel off of those
           | bigger mirrors so they could spend their resources serving
           | the less popular content, which we wouldn't be able to fit on
           | the single 2TB SSD inside this box."
        
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