From owner-freebsd-hubs Fri Jan 16 02:44:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA05475 for freebsd-hubs-outgoing; Fri, 16 Jan 1998 02:44:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mordor.plig.net (keet@PLiG.net [194.88.142.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA05467 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 1998 02:44:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keet@mordor.plig.net) Received: (from keet@localhost) by mordor.plig.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) id KAA21531; Fri, 16 Jan 1998 10:47:00 GMT From: Christiaan Keet Message-Id: <199801161047.KAA21531@mordor.plig.net> Subject: Re: mirror keeps crashes In-Reply-To: from Jesper Skriver at "Jan 16, 98 10:29:27 am" To: jesper@skriver.dk Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 10:47:00 +0000 (GMT) Cc: freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG X-NCC-RegID: uk.netlink X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31H (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jesper Skriver wrote: > I run ftp.dk.freebsd.org, and I have a problem, my mirror keeps crashing, > probably due to the wast number of files. > > Does anybody have a working mirror.conf I can get a copy of? I'm thinking > of splitting the mirror in multiple sessions, this way lowering the number > of files in each ... *nod* I had the same problem initially when I started up ftp4.uk.freebsd.org. mirror.pl runs out of memory on most sane-spec systems. I wrote a little 'frontend' for mirror.pl that logs onto the remote system, gets a list of remote directories under the root dir and creates a local config file for mirror to use, treating each remote directory as a seperate package. Works like a charm - Christiaan -- Christiaan Keet keet@plig.net +44 171 831 1666