[mirror-admin] where are all the indices of the repository?

[Carlos Carvalho]

Paulo Licio de Geus (paulo at las.ic.unicamp.br) wrote on 9 July 2009 22:00:
 >J.H. wrote:
 >
 >> Carlos Carvalho wrote:
 >>>  >Why don't you want to use --delay-updates?
 >>>
 >>> Because of the disk hit. Fedora updates very often involve more than
 >>> 10,000 files, and all these renames in sequence hit the disk hard. A
 >>> few days ago an update of about 12,700 files took about 20min of
 >>> renaming, and another a few days earlier of >20,000 took more than
 >>> 33min. During these periods the number of transactions in the disks was
 >>> around 98% of the maximum. Distributing the renames during the much
 >>> longer download time avoids these peaks.
 >>
 >
 >Have you tried ionice -c3 -p <rsync_pid>?

The machine is busy with other mirrors as well; using class Idle will
make it never finish...

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