On Fri, 23 Nov 2012 16:04:43 -0600 Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Posting here, mainly because I'm not really sure where else to ask... > > I run a Fedora mirror (mirror.hiwaay.net). I noticed that I have been > seeing a significantly higher HTTP request rate than normal. My > mirror usually sees a couple of hundred requests per minute, but it > has been running a steady 1500 requests per minute for most of > today. It hit 4000 requests per minute around mid-day Wednesday (US > Central time). > > I poked through the logs, and I see lots of requests for the file: > > /pub/fedora/linux/updates/17/x86_64/repodata/34881e74623de1754bf0e12f01884bea615fdcee05eded189f22d41bf9d4260b-other.sqlite.bz2 > > That file no longer exists; it was on my mirror from 21:12 Monday to > 22:17 Tuesday. > > I see the same IP requesting that file (and getting a 404 error) a > dozen times in less than a minute. I'm guessing there's either a yum > bug or a broken repo push that is: > > - causing yum to try to fetch an out-of-date repodata file > - causing it to try over and over again rapidly > > This is accounting for about a third of all requests to my mirror > right now. Strange. Could be the previous days updates push, but then it should be getting new repodata/seeing the change from the metalink. It should also be normally trying multiple mirrors, not a bunch of times to the same one. :( Is it all the same IP? Perhaps a horribly misconfigured machine... kevin
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