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) -- Fabian Arrotin gpg key: 56BEC54E | twitter: @arrfab