[arch-mirrors] Mirrorlist Generator Issue

Florian Pritz bluewind at xinu.at
Mon Feb 20 18:39:06 UTC 2017


On 20.02.2017 17:34, Per Osbäck wrote:
> What does the "use mirror status" actually do?
> It seem to randomize the server on each request, not sort it in any
> particular way.

It used to sort the list, but since everyone got the same list that
actually resulted in the first mirror getting much more load than the
others. Now it just limits the result to good mirrors (those with a good
score) and randomizes the list.

Florian


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