On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Aaron Bannert wrote: > > On Monday, February 24, 2003, at 01:30 PM, Joshua Slive wrote: > >> frequency: *high* > >> small sites 4x / hour, bigger ones 1x/hour > > > > That sounds a little more agressive than is really needed. Is there a > > reason you are updating more than once a day? > > I don't think updating every hour is a problem, rsync is > pretty efficient. We shouldn't encourage more than once > and hour though.
It's okay for apache-dist, but it is very inefficient for the other rsync targets because of the /mail/ directories. These contain mbox archives which can be large and change VERY frequently. If you rsync every hour, you'll wind up downloading the whole mbox every hour. Joshua.
