Am Saturday 02 October 2010 schrieb Carsten Otto:

As you can see, there is a fair amount of traffic served to the users, but there is also a large amount of traffic needed to synchronize the data. In total, when subtracting the incoming traffic from the outgoing traffic, this boils down to an average of about 2.3 MBit/sec in the last month. This value is positive, meaning our mirror serves more than what is needed to keep it synchronized - but it is very little traffic. For comparison, the openSUSE part of our mirror (excluding OBS) has a monthly average of 56 MBit/sec and Mozilla leads with 968 MBit/sec on average in the last month.

I assume there are more mirrors facing similar traffic (maybe not knowing about it, since you need to analyze the log files). I also guess that the openSUSE server/mirror infrastructure is good enough to handle the requests to OBS content without the help from external mirrors (based on the fact that they are good enough to serve all the mirrors with rsync-pushes).

Please think about the following aspects: a) some traffic is wasted and maybe paid for (we do not have to pay, though) b) disk space is used c) administrative work needs to be done

I could think of several ways to face the current situation: d) leave it as it is e) remove some mirrors with low weight (in areas with good coverage) f) remove all mirrors

Option e) would give the remaining mirrors more meaning, although even tripling the traffic would not really be a great step in my opinion. Option f) would not really change the outgoing traffic served by the openSUSE mirrors, although the traffic is shifted from rsync-pushes to HTTP downloads.

Hi, Thanks for bringing this up. Unfortunately I can't check how much traffic of the overall traffic you got as download.o.o only serves metalinks and the client then picks the mirrors. But I'm not even able to find how often you sync, because e.g. files in the KDE:Distro:Factory repo published on 29.9 are only on 2 german mirrors - files published on 12.9 are on 5. So I would think that mirror admins syncing so seldomly aren't doing themselves a favor in syncing opensuse repositories, but I'm not sure. We have no way of telling how many mirrors are available when people download repositories, even though it would be surely a good number to know. I don't even know how many mirrors we need in the world ;( But I find it very useful that you bring it up, so every mirror admin can question himself if he really wants to mirror repositories - as many have way less points than halifax has, so will see even less traffic. I'm trying to keep the most busy repositories in the 160Gb rsync module, the rest should be fine on a couple of mirrors around the world. Of course I don't want to stop anyone from mirroring, so I will not block mirrors - if people stop mirroring, it's their own choice. Greetings, Stephan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mirror+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: mirror+help@opensuse.org