# from Ask Bjørn Hansen
# on Thursday 25 March 2010 16:55:
>Most CPAN mirrors use rsync. It's not realistic to make them change
> that ("Hello all mirror operators -- so that tool that you use for
> ALL YOUR MIRRORS; well ... maybe you can use something else for
> us?").
>
>rsync is all disk i/o -- relatively negligible network and CPU.
If you're concerned about the load on upstream mirrors, is it possible
that the rsync daemon running there knows about these things (e.g.
in-memory or otherwise cached list of timestamps/checksums) without the
disk activity?
--Eric
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