Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-buildservice (284 mails)

["Dr. Peter Poeml" <poeml@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 05:39:12PM +0200, Klaus Kaempf wrote:
> * Dr. Peter Poeml <poeml@xxxxxxx> [Oct 25. 2007 17:11]:
> > On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 04:56:02PM +0200, Klaus Kaempf wrote:
> > > Please help me understand where the 'stickyness' comes from.
>
> Thanks for the explanation !

I have added the text to
http://en.opensuse.org/Build_Service/Redirector also.

> > In this context it means:
> >
> > Once a client has redirected to a certain mirror, it is redirected to
> > the same mirror again on the next request, and not to another randomly
> > chosen one. 
>
> Am I right to rephrase "it is redirected to the same mirror again on
> the next request" as "the redirector is introducing the stickyness" ?

Yes, and it is optional behaviour, which can be switched off in the
Apache module. --Which is what I meant with "we have been running with and
without stickiness in the past".

Peter
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