June 12, 2013

Service update: 5 million a day

After the release of Debian wheezy traffic jumped to about 1 million requests per day, but as the weeks have passed by traffic has continued to increase to 5 million requests every day.

Even though it is a new record for the redirector it can not yet be compared to openSUSE.org's 20-40 million on their mirrorbrain instance. Let's see how long it takes to get there.

User adoption has increased but it has yet to become the default mirror in several places.

2 comments:

  1. Any chance mirrorbrain can be fixed to accommodate the needs of Debian mirrors?

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    1. There are two major blockers:
      1. having different versions of a file with the same name is not supported by mirrobrain
      2. mirrors scanning becomes an issue with the 350+ mirrors and a client which is not fault tolerant. Most mirrors are not available via rsync and many others are not available over ftp either.

      I don't see myself hacking mirrobrain to solve those problems.

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