On 3 August 2017 at 21:13, Matthew Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 05:00:00PM -0400, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > What should we tell the lists that the number of releases which will be > in > > the main repository now? And how many releases should I archive off after > > F24 goes EOL next week? > > Based on the mirror metadata, there's basically four tiers of traffic: > > Substantial: F26, F25 (N, N-1) > Moderate: F24, F23 (N-2, N-3) > Still Chugging Along: F22, F21, F20 (N-4, N-5, N-6!) > Marginal: Everything else. (Even F8.) > > "Substantial" totals something like 150k unique IPs per day. > "Moderate" totals ~ 60k. > "Still Chugging" totals ~ 40k > "Marginal" totals ~ 15k. > > (For scale, all Fedora OS totals around 270k and all EPEL ~ 1.1m) > > I think we already dropped F21 and earlier, right? I think F22 is > pretty obvious. Long tail aside, our upgrade update has been pretty > awesome recently, and I'm I'm leaning towards F23 as well, making the > policy simply "N through N-2". > > The mirrormanager stats tell a slightly different story, with > updates-released-f21 getting hit like crazy -- I assume that's some > sort of automated process (with it all coming from one or several IPs). > Possibly the same thing is hitting F22. But if it's right that we > already dropped F21, we seem to be surviving this just fine and adding > F22 and F23 _probably_ won't hurt (right?). > The main thing is that those people are just checking.. and aren't getting any updates so they are just as happy getting them from 8 servers or 100 servers. Yes some people may be asking for 'new' packages for those systems but they are pretty much already all there. I don't see much bonus for having the mirrors wanting to cover us drop because we are over 1 TB of data in our what we want people to mirror. Especially as our disk usage may go up with flatpacks and other image formats. > > -- > Matthew Miller > <[email protected]> > Fedora Project Leader > _______________________________________________ > infrastructure mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to infrastructure-leave@lists. > fedoraproject.org > -- Stephen J Smoogen.
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