[CentOS-mirror] Mirror Usage

Thu Mar 20 12:01:39 UTC 2014
Garth van Sittert <garth at bitco.co.za>

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