portsnap fetch bug or quality

[Thomas Vogt]

Hi

We are tier 1 mirror for openoffice, mysql, several linux distributions 
and many other open source projects and we are aware of our i/o problem 
on our current ftp/rsync/http mirror. All rsync and cvsup processes 
generating a lot of i/o and high cpu load in generall but especially at 
6-7 (UTC +2) in the morning. The fact that this machine is also nearly 
full with almost 2 tb of data (95% of diskspace) is not helping to 
reduce the i/o problem.

It was never planned to use this machine as a ftp mirror but a major 
hardware crash forced us to do so. This machine is underpowered. It just 
a backup system running inside a jail. We are sorry but I'm pretty sure 
our performance problems should be fixed at the end of next week with 
our new hardware (much faster cpu, much more diskspace, standalone machine).

Regards,
Thomas

Alex Dupre schrieb:
> Thomas Vogt ha scritto:
>> When does this happen? Our server is pretty busy every morning between 
>> 06.00 - 07.00 (UTC+2) because of so many parallels cvsup.
> 
> Strange. I noticed only now that portsnap3 is next to me (Italy) and in 
> fact it has the best latency, but the downloads are very intermittent (I 
> receive N updated, a pause, other N updates, and so on, with portsnap1/2 
> it's continuous). Usually I portsnap around 8:00 (UTC + 1 + DST).
>