[mirror-admin] EPEL "freshness"

[Matt Domsch]

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net> wrote:
> I saw that my mirror (mirror.hiwaay.net) dropped out of the EPEL mirror
> lists.  I checked the log (thanks Matt!) and see that the last scan
> showed my EPEL directories as out of date.
>
> I checked my web logs for the scan time, and among the files I see the
> crawler tried to get was:
>
> /pub/epel/testing/5/x86_64/repodata/294e179903379c50ac1594e83dabdb4e63527659-other.xml.gz
>
> I checked my mirror logs, and I downloaded that file yesterday at about
> 20:45 (CDT), and deleted it today at 16:05 as it was replaced by a newer
> version.
>
> It appears that the crawler is checked against an out-of-date copy
> itself.

How out-of-date?  It can be about 3 hours out; if it's more than that,
I'd be worried.  The 3 hours accounts for the hourly scan of the
master mirror, followed by the crawlers starting the top of the next
hour and taking up to 2 hours themselves.

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