Re: www.debian.org very slow indeed?
On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, George Bonser wrote:
: On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Carl Fink wrote:
:
: > Has anyone else noticed that the main (US) Debian servers have been
: > remarkably slow lately? Both trying to use the web site, and
: > ftp.debian.org for apt.
: >
: > I've switched apt to a mirror, but the mirrors of the web site are
: > also so slow as to be nearly unusable?
All this sounds like a problem with the provider ... traceroutes may be
in order.
: One problem is the mirrors themselves. There is no standard method for
: mirroring or any policy.
Uh, no - this isn't true for http.us.debian.org
[ snip ]
: There is no policy for ensuring that the Packages file on 63.209.15.252
: matches the files on 207.69.194.216 so failures are frequent. To avoid the
: whole problem many just use ftp.debian.org and are done with it. I really
: do not care if things are not the most current, I do care that it is
: consistant and predictable.
Actually there is - all mirrors which comprise http.us.debian.org are
(supposed) to be primary-push mirrors. They are updated regularly every
day at the same time. The primary ftp server inititates the update.
: Hate to bitch without offering a suggestion so one way of doing this is:
:
: 1. round-robin mirrors grab all the new packages
: 2. they notify the central server that the update is complete
: 3. Once all servers have notified the central server that they have all
: packages, the new Packages files are pushed to them and old packages
: that have been replaced (files that no longer exists on the master )
: are deleted.
: 4. If a server has not notified the central master by a certain "drop
: dead" time, it is removed from round-robin DNS and the Packages files
: are pushed to the others. Once it reports in, its Packages file is sent
: and it is added to the round-robin DNS.
Hmm, good ideas ... let's see code :) You might want to float the idea
on debian-mirrors also.
Thanks,
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