[mirror-admin] Outdated mirrors?

[Keld Jørn Simonsen]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 07:35:05AM +0200, Jan ONDREJ (SAL) wrote:
> 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.

You cannot assume that all 110 mirrors are syncing from  download*.f.r.c
directly, some may just sync from other tier0 - tier1 sites, that then
do it directly from  download*.f.r.c - as noted below, and this is what
I also do.


Maybe  download*.f.r.c does have the capacity to have all mirrors 
sync directly from them, that would IMHO be a Good Thing(TM).

Best regards
keld

 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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