Re: [arch-dev-public] [RFC] Mirror load distribution

2017-02-01 Thread Florian Pritz via arch-dev-public
On 01.02.2017 20:08, Bartłomiej Piotrowski wrote: > No hard feelings from this side of the room. Have we ever considered > using software like mirrorbrain so users could just hit > ${country_code}.mirrors.archlinux.org to get the packages? I don't feel like adding a single point of failure is a

Re: [arch-dev-public] [RFC] Mirror load distribution

2017-02-01 Thread Bartłomiej Piotrowski
No hard feelings from this side of the room. Have we ever considered using software like mirrorbrain so users could just hit ${country_code}.mirrors.archlinux.org to get the packages? Bartłomiej

Re: [arch-dev-public] [RFC] Mirror load distribution

2017-02-01 Thread Giancarlo Razzolini
Em janeiro 30, 2017 19:13 Florian Pritz via arch-dev-public escreveu: My plan is to keep this because I just remove the sorting by score. The score will still be used to filter mirrors which have a very high one (currently >100). Such mirrors are either very, very slow or out of date. Using the

Re: [arch-dev-public] [RFC] Mirror load distribution

2017-01-30 Thread Florian Pritz via arch-dev-public
On 30.01.2017 21:57, Jelle van der Waa wrote: > Idea sounds good to me, don't forget that you can also 'generate a > mirrorlist' here, so you might want to remove the 'use mirror status' > option there too. (or was that not part of the plan?) [1] > > [1] https://www.archlinux.org/mirrorlist/ My

Re: [arch-dev-public] [RFC] Mirror load distribution

2017-01-30 Thread Jelle van der Waa
On 01/30/17 at 08:39pm, Florian Pritz via arch-dev-public wrote: > Hi, > > I've just received a report from a mirror admin about some very heavy > traffic. After some investigation it appears that the traffic towards > his mirror started to rise around the beginning of the new year when we >

[arch-dev-public] [RFC] Mirror load distribution

2017-01-30 Thread Florian Pritz via arch-dev-public
Hi, I've just received a report from a mirror admin about some very heavy traffic. After some investigation it appears that the traffic towards his mirror started to rise around the beginning of the new year when we disabled the mirror checker on gerolde. Since we now only have a mirror checker