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[Abel Deuring <abel.deuring@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 26.10.2009 11:03, Jonathan Lange wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> To satisfy my curiosity and win a bet, I'm trying to find out how long
> it takes to connect to bazaar.launchpad.net.
> 
> The method of experiment is to run 'time ssh bazaar.launchpad.net'
> five times and report the numbers for 'real' time spent.
> 
> I did it five times from Canonical's offices in London and got these numbers:
>     0.321s ; 0.293s ; 0.296s ; 0.344s ; 0.271s
> 
> I'd appreciate it if you could give it a try yourself and reply to
> this thread with your times.
> 
> Before I hit on the idea of doing it five times over, I asked some
> folks in Asia to give it a try. The times are included here for the
> sake of interest.
> 
>> From Taipei Office with LAN,
>> real    0m5.108s
>> user    0m0.016s
>> sys    0m0.012s
> 
>> From outside with my 3G modem,
>> real    0m4.575s
>> user    0m0.020s
>> sys    0m0.008s
> 
>> From Mainland China
>> real    0m48.476s
>> user    0m0.024s
>> sys    0m0.004s
> 
>> A 2nd one from mainland china...much better
>> real    0m3.245s
>> user    0m0.008s
>> sys    0m0.000s
> 
>> India
>> real    0m3.921s
>> user    0m0.016s
>> sys     0m0.008s

>From a German town that does not exist [1]:

real    0m1.023s
real    0m1.061s
real    0m1.046s
real    0m1.071s
real    0m1.051s

Abel

[1] http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1400913,00.html