[CentOS-mirror] Terrible .edu mirror performance

Mon Sep 27 20:55:19 UTC 2010
Randy McAnally <rsm at fast-serv.com>

Jim,

Yours is .EDU mirror number 3 with performance issues: 11-20kB/sec on verizon
fios as I type this.

After discussion with another .EDU maintainer, the dismal speeds were do to
hard core bandwidth capping on their web server (mod_bandwidth).

My suggestion is that anyone running a bandwidth limiter of any sort, or with
limited connectivity (<1Gbps upstream these days is limited) should be placed
on Tier2 status.

--
Randy M.
www.FastServ.com

---------- Original Message -----------
From: Jim Kusznir <jkusznir at gmail.com>
To: "Mailing list for CentOS mirrors." <centos-mirror at centos.org>
Sent: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 12:59:49 -0700
Subject: Re: [CentOS-mirror] Terrible .edu mirror performance

> RE: edu bandwidth:
> 
> I run centos.eecs.wsu.edu, and I do watch the university's bandwidth.
> I know that these days most universities have huge pipes, and we're
> actually in the "smaller" catagory, as we only have an OC-12
> (622Mbps), although local management is working to upgrade this.
> 
> That said, my mirror will max out well before our bandwidth.  My
> mirror is also a Ubuntu mirror, and when 10.04 was released, the
> entire university's bandwidth went up by a third, and that was me
> serving.  I was pushing about 40Mbps out of my box, and that limit 
> was hardware related (like many mirror servers, this hardware is second
> rate).
> 
> If you're looking for an awesome mirror, check out
> mirror.its.uidaho.edu  These guys have a very solid server, and gobs
> of bandwidth (more than WSU), and fewer users.  Local cablemodem users
> (there's no direct peering) reguarly report 20Mbps transfer rates -- 
> the cablemodem cap's.
> 
> So, if you test to uidaho and still have poor performance, there's
> probably some trauma happening on the internet.  I know our
> performance on campus to off campus was pretty bad a few days ago, 
> and apparently that was traced to a backbone provider's 
> misconfigured router that caused good portions of the US backbones 
> to get bogged down.
> 
> So, my suggestion: try mirror.its.uidaho.edu; if it still is poor
> performance (as well as several other .edu), then its probably a
> larger-scale Internet problem, not an .edu problem...give it a few
> days and it should iron out.
> 
> --Jim
> 
> On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Tru Huynh <tru at centos.org> wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 08:45:00AM +0600, Bangladeshi CentOS Mirror
Maintainer [BD-SERVERS.NET] wrote:
> >> Hello All
> >>
> >> I support Randy M, my mirror is mirrors.bd-servers.net has multiple
> >> address, that's not the issue, issue is the machine itself update any
> >> rpm via yum, it always choose .au mirrors!
> >
> > [tru at woodstock ~]$ geoiplookup BD-SERVERS.NET
> > GeoIP Country Edition: CA, Canada
> > GeoIP City Edition, Rev 1: CA, BC, Kelowna, v1y9x1, 49.900002,
-119.483299, 0, 0
> > [tru at woodstock ~]$ host BD-SERVERS.NET
> > BD-SERVERS.NET has address 69.10.136.107
> > BD-SERVERS.NET mail is handled by 0 BD-SERVERS.NET.
> > [tru at woodstock ~]$ host  bauani.org
> > bauani.org has address 69.10.136.107
> > bauani.org has IPv6 address 2001:470:9f54::3
> > bauani.org mail is handled by 0 mail.bauani.org.
> >
> > Maybe our geoip db is out of date...
> >
> >>
> >> Other box in same subnet, also choose most  of the time .au mirror. So
> >> I have to change the yum.conf of all CentOS box to use
> >> mirrors.bd-servers.net. More funny thing is from mirror access log, I
> >> found most of request is coming from India, Pakistan, Nepal etc. Few
> >> Bangladeshi IP also shows up, but it is too low in numbers. I think
> >> the problem is on fastmirror plugin.
> > [tru at woodstock ~]$ host mirrors.bd-servers.net
> > mirrors.bd-servers.net has address 175.158.99.139
> > mirrors.bd-servers.net has address 180.211.221.26
> > mirrors.bd-servers.net has address 175.158.99.141
> > mirrors.bd-servers.net has address 175.158.99.140
> > mirrors.bd-servers.net has IPv6 address 2403:1200::2
> > [tru at woodstock ~]$ geoiplookup mirrors.bd-servers.net
> > GeoIP Country Edition: BD, Bangladesh
> > [tru at woodstock ~]$ geoiplookup 175.158.99.139
> > GeoIP Country Edition: BD, Bangladesh
> > [tru at woodstock ~]$ geoiplookup 180.211.221.26
> > GeoIP Country Edition: BD, Bangladesh
> > [tru at woodstock ~]$ geoiplookup 175.158.99.141
> > GeoIP Country Edition: BD, Bangladesh
> > [tru at woodstock ~]$ geoiplookup 175.158.99.140
> > GeoIP Country Edition: BD, Bangladesh
> > [tru at woodstock ~]$
> >
> > Tru
> > --
> > Tru Huynh (mirrors, CentOS-3 i386/x86_64 Package Maintenance)
> > http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBEFA581B
> >
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