On 01/30/17 at 08:39pm, Florian Pritz via arch-dev-public wrote:
Hi,
I've just received a report from a mirror admin about some very heavy traffic. After some investigation it appears that the traffic towards his mirror started to rise around the beginning of the new year when we disabled the mirror checker on gerolde. Since we now only have a mirror checker running in Germany and his server is actually in the same data centre as ours, the mirror checks completed very quickly.
I can't think of an elegant solution for this issue.
I'm thinking about removing the mirror score from archweb's output and more importantly, not sorting mirrors based on this score but rather randomizing the list returned in [2]. It could still take the score into account by limiting the returned set to mirror that are not totally out of date, but I'd remove the sorting. The score doesn't really have a lot a meaning anyways since it's just from our point of view.
Does anyone have hard feeling about this? If not I'll prepare a patch in the next few days.
Idea sounds good to me, don't forget that you can also 'generate a mirrorlist' here, so you might want to remove the 'use mirror status' option there too. (or was that not part of the plan?) [1] [1] https://www.archlinux.org/mirrorlist/ -- Jelle van der Waa