[CentOS-mirror] Please Add New Public CentOS Mirror

Ralph Angenendt

ralph.angenendt at gmail.com
Mon Jun 27 20:17:03 UTC 2011


Am 24.06.11 21:47, schrieb Matt Domsch:

> FWIW, Fedora requests that new mirrors have at least 100Mbps
> available, especially if in a developed and already well-served
> country.  We'll accept lower in lesser-served countries.
> MirrorManager uses a weighted random draw to select mirrors, so
> mirrors advertising 5Mbps will get selected 1/20 as often as mirrors
> advertising 100Mbps, or 1/200 as often as mirrors advertising 1Gbps.

Okay. We're not using anything below Tier 1 (well, 100Mbps and up) for 
mirrorlists, which get randomized. Except in countries where there 
aren't that many mirrors.

> This helps us not overload the lower-capacity mirrors while being
> able to take some advantage of them.  However, it's often about these
> slower mirrors that I receive end user complaints due to the slow
> speed.

Hmmm. People seem to be content :)

Ralph




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