On Tuesday 26 October 2004 09.20, Ian Bruce wrote: > Can anyone explain why rsync is no longer considered an appropriate > method for fetching Packages files?
IIRC the problem is that rsync is quite CPU-heavy on the servers, so while the mirrors have the (network) resources to feed downloads to 100s of users, they don't have the (CPU) resources for a few dozen rsyncs. regards -- vbi -- Oops
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