On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, Henk van Lingen wrote: > On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 03:04:08PM +0100, Dag Wieers wrote: > > > > For a system as popular as Dag's, it doesn't look sane to me to have > > > your main mirror on a testbox, right? There have to be other mirrors/ > > > people who would be happy to help him, i think. > > > Since I don't know how much traffic is being used every day it's > > impossible for me to consider other mirrors as main mirror. > > Could you elaborate on this? It could very well be that I'm naive (how > much data are we talking?), but wouldn't it be possible to have a > box somewhere to which only you/rpmforge and the mirrors can connect and > let the mirrors sync from this one? If I were to supply you such a box, > (just to improve the quality of my mirror :-)) what should the specs be? The repository is now about 25GB data and this only increases over time. Best bet is to have 5GB additional every year. I currently have 1 box that only HEAnet can connect to. This used to be the main server until I got 20GB traffic per day (almost 3 years ago). At that point it costed me too much personally and first Axel (atrpms) and then Matthias (freshrpms) offered me to host it. But I have no clue how much bandwidth is used every day. HEAnet offers rsync access as well for all mirrors (and individuals), so I can only assume this is a considerable amount that far exceeds 20GB/day. > > RPMforge currently only comprises of Matthias, Dries and me. Other people > > are welcome to send fixes or problem-analysis. If you want to help, please > > don't simply send a report. If you have suggestions on how we can provide > > more information so you can help analysing problems, let me know. > > Maybe the RPMforge-homepage can announce known and/or current probs in > hardware and/or packages? Well, most of these problems affect only 1 distribution or only 1 builder. The right place to discuss it should be the users mailinglist right now, the homepage is not actively maintained. (I wish it was though) I yesterday rebuild all metadata again and I removed the createrepo cache. Can one report on the users mailinglist if they still have problems with corrupt checksums ? If this fixes it, it's a createrepo bug. Thanks. Kind regards, -- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]