[CentOS-mirror] Mirror Usage

[Fabian Arrotin]

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)


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Fabian Arrotin
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