* Stephan Kulow [01-13-16 10:47]:

On 13.01.2016 16:33, Marguerite Su wrote:

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Hi,

download.opensuse.org is not usable from my area for some time.

A mysterious fact is that zypper install wasn't affected too much even for large RPM downloads.

The problem happens when the repo gets refreshed.

It always timeout here or there, on those small metadata like icons...packages.gz...package summary/description translations...and etc.

I know we use MirrorBrain. I just wonder if the metadata and the actual RPMs are fetched from the same place?

They are not.

MirrorBrain only redirects things with version numbers in them. That's also the reason why for repo-md in the update repo we use the checksum of the file as its path name and create symlinks. I guess we need to do similiar things with the packages file ;(

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On Thursday 14 January 2016 01.01:56 Marguerite Su wrote:

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 11:46 PM, Stephan Kulow wrote:

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They are not.

MirrorBrain only redirects things with version numbers in them. That's also the reason why for repo-md in the update repo we use the checksum of the file as its path name and create symlinks. I guess we need to do similiar things with the packages file ;(

Greetings, Stephan

Yes...please find a way out. at least for all the stuff in setup directory.

It means the door wasn't open if the refresh got stuck.

No matter how fast, how many high-tech stuff we use to make the repository faster, people just can pursuit that treasure.

Many users in China just adds local mirrors as repositories, which leads to other issues like incomplete rsync...as desktop user usually we have only 2MB-4MB brandwidth...I never thought one day we have to "workaround" MirrorBrain, but that's actually happening.

Marguerite

Don't if it would help the global picture, but I believe that if (once the main rsync.opensuse.org is rebuild) there's a kind of primary mirror in china like widehat is for US continent would help spreading changes (especially updates and TW) to those part of the world. Anybody from infrastructure team can have look ? -- Bruno Friedmann Ioda-Net Sàrl www.ioda-net.ch openSUSE Member & Board, fsfe fellowship GPG KEY : D5C9B751C4653227 irc: tigerfoot -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org