[mirror-admin] enabling keep-alives

[Axel Thimm]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 04:02:29PM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:24:56PM +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > We did have this discussion a year ago, and I think one also needs to
> > show the negative sides of keepalives. It isn't black or white
> > otherwise it wouldn't be an option.
> 
> sure.  Your suggestion of a 2-second keepalive as an option seems a
> good one - it keeps the crawler happy, and keeps yum happy, without
> keeping slots active-but-idle for very long.  That made it into the
> wiki as a recommendation.

Thanks, could you also add some recommendations like the ones I wrote
to Günther about dealing with download accelerators (limiting
connections per IPs and/or disallowing certain types of range
requests?).

I know it's a wiki, but I'd rather not simply add content w/o the
author's consent :)
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Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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