With the addition of another mirror to our pool "dgix.ru", I would like to 
bring to the attention of every volunteer Parabola Mirror hosts and developers 
a long withstanding issue. Our only primary repository server currently is 
repo.parabola.nu. The idea of adding a mirror for the distribution is to 
balance the load between users. However this isn't doing any better and the 
upstream mirror "repo.parabola.nu" is being over loaded every time someone runs 
rsync from it. Soon there will be a time when the system will be extremely 
overloaded and no one would be able to sync from the server. It is my request 
to every existing + new mirror administrator to consider syncing from other 
frequently updated mirrors. Something in the lines of `repo.parabola.nu 
[serving via rsync] ->  Mirror 1 -> Mirror 2 -> User running pacman `. Please 
keep repo.parabola.nu as free as you can so that the Parabola Project runs 
smoothly. The server is very important to us. Its where most of the work is 
done, where we upload packages / ISO's etc. Resources are always limited. 

I would also like to thank mtjm for raising a critical issue related to the 
same. The above solution only solves 50% of the Problem. We need to randomise 
mirror selection within pacman itself. Any voluntary help would be appreciated. 

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