From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 10 20:13:57 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F354316A41F; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 20:13:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from smtp.owt.com (smtp.owt.com [204.118.6.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6947F43D49; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 20:13:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from topaz-out (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by smtp.owt.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id jAAKDJiu012484; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 12:13:19 -0800 From: Kent Stewart To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Daniel Gerzo Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 12:13:51 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <1176299575.20051110155552@rulez.sk> In-Reply-To: <1176299575.20051110155552@rulez.sk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200511101213.51581.kstewart@owt.com> Cc: "Andrew P." , Colin Percival Subject: Re: cvsup vs. portsnap (was Re: cvsup problem) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 20:13:57 -0000 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