Eberhard Moenkeberg schrieb:
Hi,
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Alexander S. Usov wrote:
Maybe this question seems a little stupid, but I would like to ask it
anyway.
Does it makes sence to keep the system up-to-date with external
repositories?
The ones I am going to use are basically guru, packman and (a bit of)
rbos.
As far as I see they are somewhat less crippled with respect to
multimedia
software, but I am not sure whether I am looking for trouble by by
letting
them replace the packages from the base system.
And one more question -- what is the status of the apt repository on
ftp4.gwdg.de? At the moment it is somewhat out-of-sync with the
corresponding
yast repositories, and even more some of them are still missing (like
supplementary/KDE and supplementary/GNOME).
Is it a temporary glitch caused by a huge load on ftp4?
Yes. Repository generation needs more than 24 hours currently (was
usually only some few minutes), and during that time, some packages get
renewed (but not recognized)...
"By design" we will never get this totally in-sync, but currently we see
very very clearly how bad it can be if the servers first have to build
metadata before the files will be usable.
If ftp4 runs 10.0, it should be possible to use ionice to give higher io
priority to metadata building and lowest prio to ftp serving.
Restricting the max concurrent ftp logins to a lower number and
forbidding more than one ftp login per IP should help even more to
reduce disk seeks.
Regards,
Carl-Daniel
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