Fedora14 is filling up my HDD without a reason

[Tim]

On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 20:46 +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
> Yesterday's metadata: 15M
> Yesterday's downloads: 90M
>  
> 17% additional bandwidth burden.
>  
> Today, no downloads, so it would be nothing but overhead.
>  
> I'm not sure, since the mirrors I usually connect to are on gigabit
> pipes (and my pipe is limited at 1Mbit), that 15 Megabytes (in about a
> minute and a half) three or four times a week constiutes an
> unreasonable burden on the infrastructure.

Multiplied by all the other people who would do the same...

Let's not just consider /that/ server, but whether every server was
overburdened by lots of users needlessly adding to their traffic.

> I have had my cache clogged on occasion, preventing security updates
> from downloading, which is why I tend to use the clean all option.

Though, rarely does the fault actually require the brute force "all"
option.

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