Interesting mirror rediness results for alpha

[Mike McGrath]

On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Mike McGrath wrote:

> So, I've been monitoring the mirrors all day, its been sort of  a manual
> process (thus the sporadic times there).  I'm going to re-run this for the
> beta and continue to run it for the alpha but the results are not at all
> what I expected:
>
> http://mmcgrath.fedorapeople.org/alphaMirrorRediness.html
>
> So the 10:00 AM portion is when we announced the alpha.  People coming to
> the mirrors would have had a less then 10% hit rate.  It went up from
> there mostly and wasn't until hours later that we saw a big spike upwards
> (after a mirror crawl completed).
>
> What I don't understand is why we've actually started losing mirrors.  We
> were almost at 90% hit rate for a bit today, and now we're back down to
> just above 60.  Any theories?  I'm going to keep monitoring.  Feel free to
> monitor yourself.  I've basically been going to:
>
> http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/test/11-Alpha/Fedora/i386/iso/
>
> And seeing if it comes up with a found or not found/perm denied.  I'm
> going to think on my methods a bit.  Currently I'm just running wget's in
> a loop for 5+ minutes at a time and taking the total number of 200's /
> total requests * 100.
>

So here's the first 24 hours:

http://mmcgrath.fedorapeople.org/alphaMirrorRediness.html