On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 09:52, Hedemark, Magnus wrote: > Seth said: > > > You might want to look at a lighter-weight httpd server than apache > > though. Maybe something like thttpd. If you're just serving static > > content you don't need all the dynamic stuff that apache offers to > > really make it run. > > That said, I'd be interested to hear more about the yum repo at Duke since > it is the default that most yum users end up hitting, both in and outside of > Duke. What sort of box is it? How is it configured? What kind of load is > it seeing? it's using tux. you don't want to know how weak of a box it is. It is routinely under crushing loads. I've put on bandwidth throttles which significantly help performance on the box itself. I'm working on a new machine to do some of this stuff but it won't solve the load problem. That's what more baseurls per repo will do. -sv
