Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (818 mails)

[Peter Poeml <poeml@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 10:35:19AM -0400, Larry Stotler wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 6:24 PM, Peter Poeml <poeml@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On a related note, I have been working with someone from the US during
> > the last days to gather data on performance of individual mirrors, and I
> > actually disabled 4 US mirrors today, which means that the remaining
> > ones should give a much better service to you.
> > Yes, the mirror situation in the US isn't very good.
>
> What would it take to become a mirror?  How fast of a connection would
> be needed?  What type of hardware?  Is there a page on this?  Thanx

The page http://en.opensuse.org/Mirror_Infrastructure tries to answer
this.

* It needs diskspace in the range of, at least, 40-60 GB. Depending on
  what is mirrored. I would estimate 30 GB for Factory.

* It needs quite some bandwidth. 1 TB per month is minimum and easily
  reached. When reaching a limit, it should fail gracefully.  The more
  content is being mirrored, the more traffic is attracted, on the other
  hand we can control the number of redirects quite well.  
  The presence of ISO images is the largest determinator for caused
  traffic.

* The hardware doesn't really matter. 

The current sizes of the rsync modules are:
http://www.poeml.de/~poeml/rsyncinfo-stage.o.o.txt
But it is possible to mirror only parts of a module.

Peter
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