On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 2:12 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> could you explain why is that a problem ? > > It produces significant load on the master. If you look at the web > stats, e.g for September: > > http://pypi.python.org/webstats/usage_200809.html > > you see that there had been 5671455 hits, or 41%, of accesses through > wget. > > The problem with wget mirroring is that it needs to read *many* > pages, to find out the *few* changes.
Sure, > FWIW, it's also the case that 4940769 hits originate from > France. Could it be that you are alone responsible for 40% of > the traffic on PyPI? > Yes, I am the only Python developer in France. That's me. Just kidding :) France has a lot of python/plone developers that triggers buildouts every day, so I am pretty sure the mirrors don't make the whole traffic in PyPI. we could probably do things better though. Here's my proposal: + see if we can locate the mirrors, so for instance, if i register a "Paris mirror" people will eventually go there because it is the nearest location for them. (à la CPAN) + create a new user agent for mirroring tools Regards Tarek > Regards, > Martin > -- Tarek Ziadé | Association AfPy | www.afpy.org Blog FR | http://programmation-python.org Blog EN | http://tarekziade.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list Catalog-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
