Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 12:13:51 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Daniel Gerzo <danger@rulez.sk> Cc: "Andrew P." <infofarmer@gmail.com>, Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: cvsup vs. portsnap (was Re: cvsup problem) Message-ID: <200511101213.51581.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <1176299575.20051110155552@rulez.sk> References: <CA513920FC73A14B964AB258D77EA8D60B559A@mx1.masongeneral.com> <cb5206420511100647h5fbc1946n88f3fac1e449e758@mail.gmail.com> <1176299575.20051110155552@rulez.sk>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Thursday 10 November 2005 06:55 am, Daniel Gerzo wrote: > Szia Andrew, > > Thursday, November 10, 2005, 3:47:32 PM, you wrote: > > There are a couple more points against portsnap: > > - it lags behind by a few hours. > > Actually, even cvsup is behind by a few hours, if you are not syncing > agains cvsup-master (to which only official cvsup mirrors have > access, and maybe even not all of them :)) so it depends on how often > is your cvsup-mirror beeing sinced. > > > - setting up a mirror is still undocumented I have found that updating a mirror takes on the order of 10 minutes. They are setup by default to update on the hour, so, I update at some point after 15 minutes after the hour. I move my mirror update until I quit getting busy timeouts. I am updating at 30 minutes after now simply because it is a convenient number :). Watching cvs-all and my updates, my mirror gets code that was modified ~10 minutes before the hour, which is when the mirrors update. Cvsup isn't that far behind if you wait for your mirror to update. If you are patient, you are only 1:10 behind at the most. Just don't update before 10-15 minutes after the hour and updating more than once an hour doesn't normally accomplish anything. You just consume more bandwidth needlessly. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200511101213.51581.kstewart>