Bug 44904

Summary:	ibiblio stream throttling causing major rsync issues on download mirrors
Product:	Mirrors	Reporter:	Dylan Vanderhoof <llarian>
Component:	Server Problem	Assignee:	Mirror Admins <mirror-admin>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Dylan Vanderhoof 2004-03-16 17:04:58 UTC

ibiblio appears to be throttling individual rsync streams to 512kbps, which is not a big deal most of the time, but in the instance of a large update (E.G. 2004.0), it causes a lot of problems for the download mirrors, or at least mine.  The issue is that updating the releases in particular causes multiple rsync instances to spawn via cron every 4 hours when only a small portion of the sync is complete.  The different processes try to update the same file causing a lot of CPU and bandwidth spikes but never actually completing an update.

Any suggestions on this?  For now I'm having to stop the cron and manually update until I get the /releases dir, then I can start cron again, but this is the second time in the past couple months I've run into this issue.

Thanks,
Dylan Vanderhoof
(Llarian Networks admin)

Comment 1 Kurt Lieber (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-03-16 17:39:29 UTC

For official mirrors, we have two private rsync mirrors which are not throttled.  If you'd like to use either of these mirrors, please send an email to mirror-admin@gentoo.org and be sure to reference your mirror name.

Thanks.

Comment 2 Dylan Vanderhoof 2004-11-16 23:39:35 UTC

Forgot to close this.  Took it up with the mirror admin.