On Mar 3, 2008, at 7:37 PM, Geoff Sheehan wrote:
Just a quick note to say that I turned on Software Update Server
yesterday.
It downloaded somewhere around 11GB of software updates over 4-5
hours - which I expected. During this period I monitored network
throughput.
I rebooted the server from scratch a few hours after the downloads
had completed, and the Software Update list appeared to be
stabilised.
The GarageBand 4.1.2 Update downloaded this morning, at my request
to "Copy Now", correctly.
I then used the SUS Redirector application to point our client Macs
to the server.
Software Update worked perfectly on our 5 Macs - mixture of Intel
and G4 - pointing at our local server.
I noticed this as well. 10.5.2 seems to have ironed out most of the
major bugs Apple was having with Software Update. When 10.5 was
released one of our network admins had notified me of excessive
bandwidth usage every night on the server that had the Software
Update service enabled. It looked like that regardless of how you
had it setup, it was downloading the entire library of updates every
time it went to do a sync. Thankfully this has resolved itself.
You can also now re-sort the list of updates and still get the
correct descriptions... something else that was broken in previous
versions.
--
Ted August
Macintosh Technical Specialist
University Computer Labs
Salve Regina University
100 Ochre Point Ave
Newport, RI 02840
401.341.2499 | email@hidden
