Re: [Bug-gnubg] Re: Race database and bearoff DB

[Jim Segrave]

On Tue 01 Oct 2002 (13:50 +0000), Joern Thyssen wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 02:37:43PM +0200, ?ystein O Johansen wrote
> > 
> > >> Is there any idea how many gnubg users there really are?
> > >
> > > I don't know. I would say more than 100 and less than 1000.
> > > Any better estimates out there?
> > 
> > If it makes thing easier to guess:
> > I have about 700 hits at my page each week, usually from about 500
> > different computers. 
> 
> It's hard to determine from IP numbers/DNS addresses as people with
> dialup or DSL access may have dynamic IP addresses.
> 
> Do you know how many times gnubg-xx.exe is downloaded?
> 
> > I guess J?rns figure is quite good, but I would
> > acctually guess it's closer to 1000 than 100.
> 
> Yes, perhaps it's more than 1000 as there may be a lot of
> non-bleeding-edge users...

I can easily say that a continuous 1Mb/s 24x7x365 of download wouldn't
really be an issue at all. Obviously there would be peaks, but we're
talking about having no issues with 30Gb/day. That's 100 copies/day of
the database.

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Jim Segrave           address@hidden