On 4/2/24 12:35, Carsten Otto wrote:
I'm one of the admins of ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de, which offers
fedora
and fedora-epel among other distributions and projects. I've recently
noticed that many Fedora users (including EPEL, CentOS, and BlackArch)
frequently re-download "repodata" files that haven't been updated since
the previous request.
I'm not sure if we're seing the same thing that Carsten is seing, but it
certainly sounds similiar: We are seing a massively increased number of
requests to our EPEL mirror (but _not_ our CentOS-old mirror, and we
have no CentOS-stream mirror).
More precisely, starting March 27 (last Wednesday), the number of
requests to the EPEL-mirror has more than quadrupled, from about
400k-ish to 1.5M-2.5M per day [1], as has the number of transferred
bytes, from about 1 TB to 4-7 TB per day [2].
That certainly does look like something is wrong.
Taking a closer look at the 1.79M EPEL-requests yesterday, 1.57M of them
reported an user-agent of "urlgrabber/3.10 yum/3.4.3", which I guess is
CentOS7? But there has not been a recent update to yum in CentOS7, has
there?
Have there perhaps some EPEL mirrors been dropped in Germany recently,
or is something wrong with the mirrorlist-load-balancing, that could
explain the sudden surge in requests?
[1]
https://ftp.fau.de/cgi-bin/show-ftp-stats.cgi?statstype=2&what=files&...
[2]
https://ftp.fau.de/cgi-bin/show-ftp-stats.cgi?statstype=2&what=bytes&...
Regards,
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Michael Meier, FTP-Admin
Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg
Regionales Rechenzentrum Erlangen
Martensstrasse 1, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
Tel.: +49 9131 85-28973, Fax: +49 9131 302941
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