On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 20:46 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > Yesterday's metadata: 15M > Yesterday's downloads: 90M > > 17% additional bandwidth burden. > > Today, no downloads, so it would be nothing but overhead. > > I'm not sure, since the mirrors I usually connect to are on gigabit > pipes (and my pipe is limited at 1Mbit), that 15 Megabytes (in about a > minute and a half) three or four times a week constiutes an > unreasonable burden on the infrastructure. Multiplied by all the other people who would do the same... Let's not just consider /that/ server, but whether every server was overburdened by lots of users needlessly adding to their traffic. > I have had my cache clogged on occasion, preventing security updates > from downloading, which is why I tend to use the clean all option. Though, rarely does the fault actually require the brute force "all" option. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
