On 3/23/23 09:38, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Nonono.
Just that the servers are too busy.
There have been this week thousands of updates on TW, and these have to be sent to the mirrors. So the server is busy both sending all those gigabytes to the mirrors and attending the requests from users. As the server (I believe) is the same for both TW and Leap, then Leap updates are also affected.
This could be improved if some automated p2p method of rsync existed to propagate the updates also from mirror to mirror. It has to be invented, AFAIK.
May need to take a hard look at how Arch stages major gcc/glibc updates. I know since March 2009 there haven't been any similar issues that have overwhelmed the distribution servers. Rarely are daily updates more than 5-10 packages. In fact yesterday, it was 14M: Packages (14) coreutils-9.2-1 cryptsetup-2.6.1-3 debugedit-5.0-5 dvgrab-3.5-13 gpgme-1.19.0-3 gtk-update-icon-cache-1:4.10.1-2 iperf-2.1.9-1 licenses-20220125-2 python-gpgme-1.19.0-3 python-markdown-3.4.2-1 python-platformdirs-3.1.1-1 ttf-ubuntu-font-family-0.862-2 vim-9.0.1420-1 vim-runtime-9.0.1420-1 Total Download Size: 14.35 MiB Total Installed Size: 64.01 MiB Net Upgrade Size: -1.51 MiB When major changes are involved gcc/glibc, etc.. it appears from the user standpoint like they update and pre-deploy all packages that can be built compatible with the current and next gcc/glibc in the week before the actual gcc/glibc packages are released (moved from testing to core, etc..) That way, on the day the big update is released, you only get updates to OS packages directly dependent on the new version. (still can be sizable the kernel and kernel-LTS, all headers, sources, etc, but rarely exceeds 600M -- and that is a rare occurrence) Of course, if you are the type that only updates bi-weekly or monthly, then yes, you will see 1G updates each time, but for daily updates 15M - 50M are common (that's with a huge number of packages installed) Maybe opensuse could tweak the order packages are built an release to lessen the demand on the update servers? (just a thought -- that maybe what is done already) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.