Re: New mirror scripts for Debian mirrors
On Sun, 9 Nov 2008 23:31:54 +0100, Arnt wrote in message
<[🔎] 20081109233154.77f7f176@a45.fmb.no>:
> On Sun, 09 Nov 2008 12:21:33 -0500, Ricardo wrote in message
> <[🔎] 49171C1D.80706@calel.org>:
>
> > Carlos Carvalho wrote:
> >
> > > The problem, in our case, is not the download, it's the scavenging
> > > of an enormous tree to determine what has to be transfered. This
> > > is very heavy because it's almost only disk seeks.
> > >
> >
> > Yes, this part of the sync process is time consuming and is what
> > will eventually limit the frequency of pushes.
>
> ..what then am I seeing?; with 256MB ram in my mirror box, I saw
> scan(?) times around 1/2 an hour, with 1/2GB I now see 2 to 3 minutes
> before the download starts from ftp.de2.d.o,
..er, make that ftp2.de.d.o,
> but from ftp.de.d.o it's
> still close to 1/2 an hour??? These 2 are "my" best mirrors, I'm in
> Norway but the ones closer to me, are all slower.
>
> > I would like to see trials on a mirror by mirror basis before the
> > pushing frequencies are increased arbitrarily. I'm sure we can take
> > 3 a day and even 4. But more than that will probably jam things.
>
>
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