On 20/03/14 13:01, Garth van Sittert wrote:

Hi All

In our Apache access logs we see thousands of requests for repomd.xml but very few rpms being downloaded:

[20/Mar/2014:13:56:50 +0200] "GET /centos/5.10/os/i386/repodata/repomd.xml HTTP/1.1" 200 1140 "-" "urlgrabber/3.1.0 yum/3.2.22" [20/Mar/2014:13:56:51 +0200] "GET /centos/5.10/extras/i386/repodata/repomd.xml HTTP/1.1" 200 2146 "-" "urlgrabber/3.1.0 yum/3.2.22" [20/Mar/2014:13:56:51 +0200] "GET /centos/5.10/addons/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml HTTP/1.1" 200 1953 "-" "urlgrabber/3.1.0 yum/3.2.22" [20/Mar/2014:13:56:51 +0200] "GET /centos/5.10/os/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml HTTP/1.1" 200 1140 "-" "urlgrabber/3.1.0 yum/3.2.22" [20/Mar/2014:13:56:51 +0200] "GET /centos/5.10/extras/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml HTTP/1.1" 200 2146 "-" "urlgrabber/3.1.0 yum/3.2.22" [20/Mar/2014:13:56:51 +0200] "GET /centos/5.10/updates/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml HTTP/1.1" 200 1953 "-" "urlgrabber/3.1.0 yum/3.2.22" [20/Mar/2014:13:56:51 +0200] "GET /centos/5.10/updates/i386/repodata/repomd.xml HTTP/1.1" 200 1953 "-" "urlgrabber/3.1.0 yum/3.2.22" [20/Mar/2014:13:56:52 +0200] "GET /centos/5.10/updates/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml HTTP/1.0" 200 1953 "-" "urlgrabber/3.1.0 yum/3.2.22" [20/Mar/2014:13:56:53 +0200] "GET /centos/5.10/os/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml HTTP/1.0" 200 1140 "-" "urlgrabber/3.1.0 yum/3.2.22" [20/Mar/2014:13:56:54 +0200] "GET /centos/5.10/updates/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml HTTP/1.1" 200 1953 "-" "urlgrabber/3.1.0 yum/3.2.22" [20/Mar/2014:13:56:54 +0200] "GET /centos/5.10/updates/i386/repodata/repomd.xml HTTP/1.1" 200 1953 "-" "urlgrabber/3.1.0 yum/3.2.22" [20/Mar/2014:13:56:54 +0200] "GET /centos/5.10/os/i386/repodata/repomd.xml HTTP/1.1" 200 1140 "-" "urlgrabber/3.1.0 yum/3.2.22" [20/Mar/2014:13:56:54 +0200] "GET /centos/5.10/extras/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml HTTP/1.0" 200 2146 "-" "urlgrabber/3.1.0 yum/3.2.22" [20/Mar/2014:13:56:54 +0200] "GET /centos/5.10/updates/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml HTTP/1.1" 200 1953 "-" "urlgrabber/3.1.0 yum/3.2.22" [20/Mar/2014:13:56:55 +0200] "GET /centos/5.10/updates/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml HTTP/1.0" 200 1953 "-" "urlgrabber/3.1.0 yum/3.2.22"

Is this normal? mirror.bitco.co.za is confirmed up to date.

Kind Regards Garth

Well, that can just mean all machines actually using your mirrors are up2date, but still 'hit' the mirror on each yum operation (or just when cache expired) , so if one of those machine needs to setup package from another repository, they would still verify the centos repository , and so fetching/comparing checksums declared in that repomd.xml file (to validate that local metadata is still correct, or needs to be downloaded again)