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Am I right in thinking that the Gentoo Rsync mirrors are using more bandwidth then they could, |
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because of the CPU load on the servers and the fact that there are less Rsync mirrors then distfiles mirrors? |
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Emerge-delta-webrsync downloads its patch from the distfiles mirrors which can make it up to 8 hours late, plus the snapshots are only made once every 24 hours. |
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So the portage tree you download could be up to 32 hours old. |
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Rsync mirrors are updated twice an hour but the rules for using them are one sync every 12 hours. |
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This feels like a hang over from the bad old days of syncing and compiling at night. |
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As the distfiles mirror updates are stepped you can always find a mirror which is only one hour old. |
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So If Gentoo creates a portage snapshot every hour. We can update more than once every 12 hours and |
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when updates are marked as security updates, we can push the security updates faster then we do now. |
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The only down side is that the mirrors would have to hold a lot more snapshots than they do now. |
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So can we have a portage snapshot every hour please? |
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http://mirrorstats.gentoo.org/ |
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http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/TIP_Gentoo_for_dialup_users#emerge-delta-webrsync |
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