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Posted to mirrors@apache.org by Peter Grigor <pg...@hoobly.com> on 2012/05/10 04:47:17 UTC

Re: rsync frequency

I'm at twice a day.

Peter
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On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Henk P. Penning <pe...@uu.nl> wrote:
> Hi Apache.org Mirrors,
>
>  we noticed that many mirrors rsync much more frequent
>  than "once or twice" a day. See :
>
>    http://people.apache.org/~henkp/rstats/aurora/month.html
>    http://people.apache.org/~henkp/rstats/eos/month.html
>
>  The "how-to-mirror" requirements now say :
>
>    You must do an update-check at least once a day,
>    and preferably twice a day.
>    You may sync 4 times (max) per day, but only if you
>    have a slow or weak connection, causing timeouts.
>
>  Earlier it said :
>
>    .. once a day and preferably between 2 and 4 times per day.
>
>  Please help us : check your rsync frequency and set it to
>  "once or twice a day".
>
>  We are expecting a few big releases. If too many mirrors
>  try to pick up the updates at the same time, it is hard
>  on our infrastructure.
>
>  Thanks a lot, regards,
>
>  Henk Penning
>
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