Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 11:07:49 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra) Cc: hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with the new mail-archive collection Message-ID: <199706221807.LAA15711@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <199706221711.KAA13775@austin.polstra.com> from "John Polstra" at Jun 22, 97 10:11:09 am
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there is an effort underway at this time to split the archives into weekly sections (freebsd-questions.19970601, freebsd-questions.19970608, etc...). this will become the default for all the mailing lists. jmb John Polstra wrote: > > The unusual character of the new mail-archive collection has exposed > a long-standing bug in CVSup. If any of you are trying to get this > new collection, I'd advise you to give up until I'm able to get > out a new release to fix the problem. > > The problem comes from the fact that a few of the files in the > collection are both very large (> 100 MB) and very frequently > updated on the master host hub.FreeBSD.org. The worst offenders are > freebsd-hackers and freebsd-questions. > > Currently, cvsupd does a stat() to determine the size of the file > when sending it for the first time. Then it sends the indicated > number of bytes. For these huge files, it takes a long time. > Often, the files have received new messages during the transfer, > making them longer. Cvsupd notices this after it's sent the "whole" > file according to the information it got from stat. It complains > that the file grew on the server, and proceeds to try to recover in > the worst possible way. > > I know how to fix this and will make a new release as soon as I > can. Meanwhile, don't bother trying to use the new collection. > I would disable it entirely, but Jordan is using it to keep wcarchive > up to date. It's got a high speed link to freefall and the files > transfer very quickly, so the problem isn't so serious for that > particular application. > > John > -- > John Polstra jdp@polstra.com > John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA > "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth >
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