It's a real memory hog. I don't think it needs to be, but haven't had the tuits to prove that assertion.
David On Mar 25, 2010 6:43 PM, "Eric Wilhelm" <enoba...@gmail.com> wrote: # from Geoffrey Broadwell # on Thursday 25 March 2010 14:08: >> Maybe CPAN mirrors are more easily updated than via a generic rsync? >> Is the burden only network/cpu for checking whether a bunch of old >> archives have changed, or does disk matter? > >Forgive a lurker, but wasn't that the point of this: > > http://search.cpan.org/~andk/File-Rsync-Mirror-Recent-0.0.7/ > >When I saw that announced, I remember thinking "Yay, large archive > rsync problem solved!" Did it not work out? It sounds like it has the tech solved. Now mirror admins just need to know about it and how to use it. The !!!! PRE-ALPHA ALERT !!!! in the documentation is may seem like a big stop sign for potential users. But presumably we don't need to do anything to PAUSE/the CPAN for admins to quicken their mirror process -- just need some feedback, docs, and a frontend for it to gain widespread use. Now it's just a simple matter of education. :-D --Eric -- If the collapse of the Berlin Wall had taught us anything, it was that socialism alone was not a sustainable economic model. --Robert Young --------------------------------------------------- http://scratchcomputing.com ---------------------------------------------------
