hi,
On 08/23/2010 10:53 PM, Graham Frank wrote:
I've checked from a few datacenters to make sure it wasn't any particular location, but mirrors.bluehost.com appears to be limited to 10KB/s. Yum's "fastest-mirrors" keeps selecting this for a handful of servers making yum very slow. The issue has been present for at last the past several days. I imagine I'm not the only one with this issue?
Can you do some tests from your network to theirs and see if there is a bottleneck somewhere enroute ?
They don't show up in the main mirror list, but they show up in 'ok' status on the mirror status page.
I can fairly easily plumb in a scheduled regular tests that would check b/w rates from various places. However, the question then would be : what is a reasonable acceptable[1] performance test.
If we can come up with a test that is considered acceptable, we can then move to adding a metric from there into the mirrorlist generation to make sure that slower mirrors are used more infrequently.
The caveat here being that even through a machine might only be 10mbps, because its used more infrequently - it might give its 2 simultaneous users a better / faster experience than the 100mbps machine can to its 500 simultaneous users.
Thoughts ?
- KB
[1]: acceptable to the mirror admins. I dont think they would like it much if we were to pull a 600M iso every 6 hours as a speed test.