How many mirrors does portsnap have, it seems to only have around 3 or 4 and they all located in the .us whilst cvs has dozens around the world. Is there a eu pool of mirrors available to use or if not is their a way I can apply to host an eu mirror or even 2 eu mirrors. Chris
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 01:43:52AM +0100, Chris wrote:> How many mirrors does portsnap have, it seems to only have around 3 or > 4 and they all located in the .us whilst cvs has dozens around the > world. > > Is there a eu pool of mirrors available to use or if not is their a > way I can apply to host an eu mirror or even 2 eu mirrors.According to Colin's writeup here: http://people.freebsd.org/~cperciva/funding.html > Right now [the mirroring code] uses around one thousand times more > bandwidth than an individual client machine; as a result, I've been > asking people to use the existing mirrors rather than creating their > own, but for a variety of reasons this isn't ideal for everybody. Hopefully that will be fixed this summer and then we'll have lots of mirrors. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20060418/66f1987c/attachment.pgp
On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 01:43:52 +0100 Chris <chrcoluk@gmail.com> wrote:> How many mirrors does portsnap have, it seems to only have around 3 or > 4 and they all located in the .us whilst cvs has dozens around the > world. > > Is there a eu pool of mirrors available to use or if not is their a > way I can apply to host an eu mirror or even 2 eu mirrors.From man portsnap: If you wish to use portsnap to keep a large number of machines up to date, you may wish to set up a caching HTTP proxy. Since portsnap uses fetch(1) to download updates, setting the HTTP_PROXY environment variable will direct it to fetch updates from the given proxy. This is much more efficient than mirroring the files on the portsnap server, since the vast majority of files are not needed by any particular client. So you could set up a public caching Proxy (maybe just for portsnap.freebsd.org) and tell people to use it. Voila. Your very efficient mirror :) - Marius
Chris wrote:> How many mirrors does portsnap have, it seems to only have around 3 or > 4 and they all located in the .us whilst cvs has dozens around the > world.Two mirrors, actually: portsnap1.freebsd.org, and portsnap2.freebsd.org.> Is there a eu pool of mirrors available to use or if not is their a > way I can apply to host an eu mirror or even 2 eu mirrors.I have a list of people who have offered mirrors, but so far I haven't seen any need for additional mirrors -- the two which already exist are showing no signs of slowing down. Why do you think there should be an .eu mirror? Colin Percival