On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 21:39:24 +0200 Andreas wrote: > I propose choosing one or two reliable and well-used mirror
which are the most used mirrors is currently another unknown - you have one such mirror; so you could be one of the monitors; but how to determine if yours is among the most used On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 21:39:24 +0200 Andreas wrote: > Putting the redirector at the end of the mirrorlist would make > a lot of sense. It would allow users to enable (uncomment) a > default mirror they prefer, and pacman would only fall back on > the redirector if needed. that is already the recommendation - i added that to the mirrorlist some time ago: > # Note: This is not itself a mirror, but a load-balancing redirector. > # It automatically redirects to an approriate Arch or Parabola mirror. > # It works best by specifying it a few times, to recover from 404s. > # This is the most reliable and recommended option. > # Moving a nearby mirror from the list below to above these can often > # afford a speed boost; but keeping these enabled always is most > reliable. > Server = https://redirector.parabola.nu/$repo/os/$arch > Server = https://redirector.parabola.nu/$repo/os/$arch > Server = https://redirector.parabola.nu/$repo/os/$arch > Server = https://redirector.parabola.nu/$repo/os/$arch > Server = https://redirector.parabola.nu/$repo/os/$arch i was only suggesting that it could skew the results; because the redirect or would only see requests from such a user sporadically, only for the most fresh packages, and only for brief periods while their preferred mirror is out-of sync - it would put a slight weight on packages that have higher churn rates, while they are less than a sync interval old - maybe thats negligible _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/dev
