updated numbers, and the bit about data fetching

CVS version numbers

english/mirror/size.wml: 1.30 -> 1.31

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/english/mirror/size.wml b/english/mirror/size.wml
index d8fc9cd129c..2ea63b120e7 100644
--- a/english/mirror/size.wml
+++ b/english/mirror/size.wml
@@ -2,7 +2,9 @@
 
 <h2>How big is the Debian archive?</h2>
 
-# psql -U nobody projectb
+# (note for the English editors on how to update some of the numbers below)
+# dak psql database on ftp-master is 'projectb'
+# and there's a copy on merkel
 # projectb=> select sum(files.size) from files,binaries,architecture
 #            where architecture.id=binaries.architecture and
 #            architecture.arch_string='i386' and files.id=binaries.file;
@@ -10,27 +12,28 @@
 #            from files,binaries,architecture where
 #            architecture.id=binaries.architecture and files.id=binaries.file
 #            group by architecture.arch_string;
-
 # however, this might not work completely reliably, it will report smaller
-# figures. dunno exactly why, elmo didn't have a good answer.
+# figures. dunno exactly why; asked elmo and he didn't have an answer.
+# thankfully, later checks showed that the difference from the real thing
+# is sufficiently small (<= 100 MB or so) to be ignored -joy
 
-<p>Numbers on this page are from the archive as of December 2006.</p>
+<p>Numbers on this page are from the archive as of May 2007.</p>
 
 <dl>
 <dt><strong>the whole thing</strong></dt>
-  <dd>Roughly 205 GB.</dd>
+  <dd>Roughly 235 GB.</dd>
 
 <dt><strong>architecture independent packages</strong></dt>
-  <dd>Roughly 16.5 GB.</dd>
+  <dd>Roughly 20.5 GB.</dd>
 
 <dt><strong>a released architecture</strong> (from oldstable, stable, testing and unstable)</dt>
-  <dd>Ranging roughly from 11.5 GB to 15.3 GB.</dd>
+  <dd>Ranging roughly from 12.8 GB to 19 GB.</dd>
 
 <dt><strong>an unreleased architecture</strong></dt>
-  <dd>Anywhere between 1.6 GB and 11 GB, but growing.</dd>
+  <dd>Anywhere between 2 GB and 12 GB, but growing.</dd>
 
 <dt><strong>sources</strong></dt>
-  <dd>About 27 GB.</dd>
+  <dd>About 33 GB.</dd>
 </dl>
 
 <p>Note that the archive is constantly growing; testing will grow especially
@@ -41,8 +44,9 @@ sources instead.</p>
 <h3>How big is the Debian CD archive?</h3>
 
 <p>The CD archive varies greatly across mirrors &mdash; the Jigdo files are
-around 50 MB per architecture, while the full DVD/CD images are around 9 GB
-each, plus extra space for the 'update' CD images, Bittorrent files, etc.</p>
+around 100-150 MB per architecture, while the full DVD/CD images are
+around 15 GB each, plus extra space for the 'update' CD images,
+Bittorrent files, etc.</p>
 
 <p>For more information about the CD archive mirroring, please see
 the <a href="../CD/mirroring/">Debian CD mirror pages</a>.</p>