Just a quick heads-up, a message that I was asked to pass along from the infra team:
Begin forwarded message: > From: Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> > Subject: Fwd: [Tony Stevenson: Your recent release...] > > Chairs -- please pass this along to your PMCs > > tldr: 3GB is NOT a reasonable size for a release. > > ----- Forwarded message from Tony Stevenson <pct...@apache.org> ----- > >> Dear [snip] folks, >> >> Your recent release, as can be found in: >> >> minotaur:/x1/www/www.apache.org/dist/[snip] >> >> Has just caused a massive spike in our outbound traffic, this releases >> totals 2.9GB. This was then avialable to 287 mirrors (not included the >> internal ASF hosts here). That is nearly 900GBs of data had we not >> stopped the rsync daemon on the US mirror host. >> >> So right now, thanks to this release we are now preventing all mirrors >> from sync'ing up, as we are forced to implement a rate limiting >> solution to prevent them from saturating our link and having the US >> mirror pushing 20MB/s (160Mb/s) of traffic. >> >> In future if you, or any other project you are involved in wants to >> release something this large, please let infra know in advance so we >> can take precautionary steps to prevent this from happening again. >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Cheers, >> Tony >> >> On behalf of the Apache Infrastructure Team >> >> >> --------------------------------------- >> Tony Stevenson >> >> t...@pc-tony.com // pct...@apache.org >> t...@caret.cam.ac.uk >> >> http://blog.pc-tony.com >> >> GPG - 1024D/51047D66 >> --------------------------------------" > > ----- End forwarded message -----
