[mirror-admin] too many files just changing time

[Mike McGrath]

On Wed, 15 Jul 2009, Carlos Carvalho wrote:

> Updates in the last days are messing with too many files uselessly.
> Below a table. Pulled means files that changed something so rsync
> checked them; modified are the ones that changed something other than
> just the timestamp.
>
> Many entries have a very small number of changes due to the meltdown
> of the master. Maybe that was the cause...
>
> start of update             |pulled|modified|ratio (%)
> Tue Jul 14 21:20:05 BRT 2009|13544 |2815    |20.78
> Tue Jul 14 18:20:04 BRT 2009|7925  |2023    |25.53
> Tue Jul 14 15:20:05 BRT 2009|2604  |168     |6.45
> Tue Jul 14 12:20:04 BRT 2009|0     |0       |-
> Tue Jul 14 09:20:04 BRT 2009|0     |0       |-
> Tue Jul 14 06:20:03 BRT 2009|1     |0       |0.00
> Tue Jul 14 03:20:04 BRT 2009|0     |0       |-
> Tue Jul 14 00:20:05 BRT 2009|0     |0       |-
> Mon Jul 13 21:20:05 BRT 2009|4     |4       |100.00
> Mon Jul 13 18:20:06 BRT 2009|4     |4       |100.00
> Mon Jul 13 15:20:07 BRT 2009|4     |4       |100.00
> Mon Jul 13 12:20:06 BRT 2009|4     |4       |100.00
> Mon Jul 13 09:20:05 BRT 2009|59    |11      |18.64
> Mon Jul 13 06:20:03 BRT 2009|90    |31      |34.44
> Mon Jul 13 03:20:04 BRT 2009|553   |138     |24.95
> Mon Jul 13 00:20:03 BRT 2009|66    |20      |30.30
> Mon Jul 13 00:15:26 BRT 2009|18    |1       |5.56
> Mon Jul 13 00:08:13 BRT 2009|1458  |412     |28.26
> Sun Jul 12 21:20:04 BRT 2009|601   |158     |26.29
> Sun Jul 12 18:20:04 BRT 2009|1964  |495     |25.20
> Sun Jul 12 15:20:03 BRT 2009|282   |122     |43.26
> Sun Jul 12 14:04:15 BRT 2009|3043  |850     |27.93
> Sun Jul 12 14:03:40 BRT 2009|0     |0       |-
> Sun Jul 12 12:20:03 BRT 2009|0     |0       |-
> Sun Jul 12 09:20:06 BRT 2009|0     |0       |-
> Sun Jul 12 06:20:04 BRT 2009|0     |0       |-
> Sun Jul 12 03:20:03 BRT 2009|0     |0       |-
> Sun Jul 12 00:20:03 BRT 2009|0     |0       |-
> Sat Jul 11 21:20:04 BRT 2009|27    |26      |96.30
> Sat Jul 11 18:20:07 BRT 2009|11745 |1187    |10.11
>

Do you happen to have information that goes back farther then this?  We
don't (yet) and this is extremely useful.

	-Mike

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