On Thursday 21 April 2011 01:58:20 Torje Hoås Digernes wrote:

I was considering setting up a mirror for archlinux. Regarding this I was trying to find an estimate on the load I must expect. I expect the load only to be an issue for the hardware trying to serve it as the mirror will be on a solid net.

Could anyone help me estimate the load of a full mirror in Norway?

To be honest, any half-capable server should be sufficient to shovel data down the pipe; it's the bandwidth that's likely to be the limiting factor, unless it becomes ridiculously popular. I maintain mirrors.uk2.net which is a tier-1 mirror for Arch, and also hosts other mirrors (CPAN, Debian etc). Looking at my graphs, it sees an average of 6Mbps outbound over the last week, with peaks up to ~60Mbps. Load tends to stay pretty low - for instance, right now: [dave@mirrors:~]$ uptime 11:15:31 up 210 days, 19 min, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 The load will increase somewhat when rsync'ing mirrors, but not massively (primarily IO-bound). So, in summary: your main concerns will be bandwidth and disc IO. Cheers Dave P -- David Precious ("bigpresh") http://www.preshweb.co.uk/ "Programming is like sex. One mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life". (Michael Sinz)

On Thursday 21. April 2011 02.58.20 Torje Hoås Digernes wrote:

I was considering setting up a mirror for archlinux.

Since I maintain mirror.archlinux.no, I should point out that there is already a mirror in Trondheim and in Bergen.

Could anyone help me estimate the load of a full mirror in Norway?

The load is pretty much insignificant from what I can tell. -- Andreas Kalvå