Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 12:43:50 +0100 (MET) From: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se> To: keet@mordor.plig.net (Christiaan Keet) Cc: jesper@skriver.dk, freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mirror keeps crashes Message-ID: <199801161143.MAA03242@father.ludd.luth.se> In-Reply-To: <199801161047.KAA21531@mordor.plig.net> from Christiaan Keet at "Jan 16, 98 10:47:00 am"
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> 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. > There are also a rather good mirror program written in C available; it fetches files continously instead of doing a complete list to compare first. It is located at ftp.luth.se:/pub/unix/mirror/spegla-0.92.tar.gz and is very easy to configure. Actually; a friend of mine wrote it when we got into trouble with the perl scripts :-) -- Ragge
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