[mirror-admin] Outdated mirrors?

[Jan ONDREJ (SAL)]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 03:25:06PM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 04:53:06PM -0300, Carlos Carvalho wrote:
> > Matt Domsch (Matt_Domsch at dell.com) wrote on 16 July 2008 14:19:
> >  >A config change on the Duke mirror left the account running the
> >  >cronjobs unable to run cronjobs.  This has now been fixed.
> >  >
> >  >Separately, the iBiblio mirror was also stale (since 9-July).
> > 
> > Just the two tier-0 ones. Oops...
> 
> Indeed.  Interestingly, of the ~150 public mirrors, ~110 were still
> listed as being up-to-date, meaning they were syncing from
> download*.f.r.c directly, and not using tiering.  Which is disappointing.

Agree.

I am mirroring updates hourly from tier1 sunsite.mff.cuni.cz without delete.
My daily mirror downloads updates from d*.f.r.c and other content from
czech mirror.

But I think no tier1 mirror has full content of all packages few hours after
new package announce. When I see announces and incomplete mirror on my
machine, I run mirror manually (again first from czech, then from redhat).

Tier1 mirrors are often incomplete, and what is bad, their have sometimes
incomplete content, which can't be used by yum. When updates are announced,
my mirror downloads each hour a partial content from czech mirror. Always
some more packages, but not all.

Is it possible to add a shaper to d*.f.r.c to set maximal priority for tier0
mirrors? Give them maximum allowed capacity when they are downloading.
And similarry tier0->tier1. It can give them fast udpates and others will
have limited speed.

You can see for example this log from my server to see, how updates are
downloaded hourly. Each hour I am trying to get all updates, but each hour a
get only a partial content.
  http://ftp.upjs.sk/pub/.logs/mirror-20080709.log.gz
Other logs are also available from parent directory.

			SAL

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