On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, Henk van Lingen wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 03:04:08PM +0100, Dag Wieers wrote:
>
> > > For a system as popular as Dag's, it doesn't look sane to me to have
> > > your main mirror on a testbox, right? There have to be other mirrors/
> > > people who would be happy to help him, i think.
>
> > Since I don't know how much traffic is being used every day it's
> > impossible for me to consider other mirrors as main mirror.
>
> Could you elaborate on this? It could very well be that I'm naive (how
> much data are we talking?), but wouldn't it be possible to have a
> box somewhere to which only you/rpmforge and the mirrors can connect and
> let the mirrors sync from this one? If I were to supply you such a box,
> (just to improve the quality of my mirror :-)) what should the specs be?
The repository is now about 25GB data and this only increases over time.
Best bet is to have 5GB additional every year.
I currently have 1 box that only HEAnet can connect to. This used to be
the main server until I got 20GB traffic per day (almost 3 years ago). At
that point it costed me too much personally and first Axel (atrpms) and
then Matthias (freshrpms) offered me to host it.
But I have no clue how much bandwidth is used every day. HEAnet offers
rsync access as well for all mirrors (and individuals), so I can only
assume this is a considerable amount that far exceeds 20GB/day.
> > RPMforge currently only comprises of Matthias, Dries and me. Other people
> > are welcome to send fixes or problem-analysis. If you want to help, please
> > don't simply send a report. If you have suggestions on how we can provide
> > more information so you can help analysing problems, let me know.
>
> Maybe the RPMforge-homepage can announce known and/or current probs in
> hardware and/or packages?
Well, most of these problems affect only 1 distribution or only 1 builder.
The right place to discuss it should be the users mailinglist right now,
the homepage is not actively maintained. (I wish it was though)
I yesterday rebuild all metadata again and I removed the createrepo cache.
Can one report on the users mailinglist if they still have problems
with corrupt checksums ?
If this fixes it, it's a createrepo bug.
Thanks.
Kind regards,
-- dag wieers, dag@xxxxxxxxxx, http://dag.wieers.com/ --
[all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]
