[CentOS-mirror] Very Slow Mirror

[Graham Frank]

Nick --
Oh most definitely.  One thought I had previously was an opt-in where
users who update with yum can opt to have transfer rates sent back to
centos.org.  But that's treading into deep waters...

When I say "test the server" I mean in a distributed sense.  I.e.
multiple servers are checking from many geographically diverse
regions.  Any one faulty checking server can easily be identified in a
sea of working ones.  That idea pushes up the bandwidth usage for
checking, however.  But even if checking uses a gigabyte of bandwidth
per month, that's nothing compared to the overall bandwidth they will
see in the same time period.  Some acceptable ground should be there
somewhere.

--Graham

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Nick Olsen <Nick at 141networks.com> wrote:
> Only problem I see with this is it would be dependent on what the mirror
> could pull from the other mirrors.
> Lets say the "checking" server is in the US, and the server being
> checked is in Australia. It might hand out 10Gb/s to local users, But it
> doesn't get used because its marked bad, All because the checking server
> is far away(network wise). Or lets say the "checking" server has some
> sort of bandwidth issue, Then they all get marked poor... Lots of things
> to consider on this one.