[mirror-admin] faster report_mirror available

[CSEA]

Could you please modify it to upload data from behind proxies?

- Krishna,
  CSEA, IIT G.



> I've posted a newer version of report_mirror which might interest you.
>
> http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/mirrormanager/?p=mirrormanager;a=blob_plain;f=client/report_mirror;hb=HEAD
>
> This version is faster in 2 ways:
> 1) it eliminates the stat() calls on every file in your mirror, which
>    were slow and added to your system's disk I/O load.
> 2) it no longer uploads stat() data for each file to the MM database.
>    It now only uploads a list of directories, which is much less
>    data.  This should reduce the Proxy Error timeouts we've seen too,
>    as now it uploads only a few hundred bytes of data.
>
> Behavior on the back end MM database is unchanged.  In reality, it
> was mostly ignoring  the per-file stat() data anyhow.
>
> If you hadn't been running report_mirror after each rsync run, because
> it was too slow, please try with this new version.
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
> Fedora Mirror Wrangler
>
> --
> Matt Domsch
> Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
> linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux
>
> --
>


Cheers,
CSEA

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