On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Philip Mark Donaghy wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Currently I am using rsync every 24 hours but I would > like to synchronize more frequently. Every hour seems > reasonable and is mentioned in the mirrors archives. > Any recommendations?
Every hour seems excessive. I think every six hours would be the minimum I would see as reasonable. Also, make sure you are syncing only with apache-dist, since other rsync repositories change much more frequently, and will therfore cause excessive bandwidth utilization. > IDEA : I think it would be useful if we synchronize > all the web statistics from all the mirrors. > Additionally if the statistics were generated by > geographic location apache would know which packages > are in demand and where. We have been considering collecting some mirror statistics. But getting them from all mirrors would probably be too difficult. Rather, we may just get a sampling and do some extrapolation to estimate total usage. Joshua.
