Re: debmirror: cpu bound?

From: Christian Convey (conveycj_at_npt.nuwc.navy.mil)
Date: 12/07/04

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    Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 12:35:36 -0500
To: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>

    Hi Jochen,

    Thanks for the info, and I'd love a copy of your apt-move.conf file.

    I think I've discovered a little more. It looks like
    "ftp.at.debian.org" needs to be accessed via http, not ftp. When I use
    ftp as my protocol I seem to get all the problems.

    Jochen Schulz wrote:
    > * Christian Convey:
    >
    >>FYI, the local mirror currently has about 12GB of content. I don't know
    >>whether or not that implies I should expect a very long period of
    >>CPU-boundedness for debmirror.
    >
    >
    > I don't know debmirror, but I use apt-move to maintain a local debian
    > mirror for my machines. I update three times a day (on a small 800MHz,
    > 265MB VIA box) and it almost never takes more than twenty minutes to
    > rebuild all the Package files (which should be the only CPU-intensive
    > task involved in mirroring) after fetching new/updated packages. So I
    > think something on your side is definitely wrong.
    >
    > If you are interested, I can post my apt-move.conf, but I think the
    > program and the example configuration is pretty self-explanatory. It
    > justs fetches all packages (filtering possible) from all mirrors in your
    > sources.list and generates a Debian-style directory structure which I
    > export via http.
    >
    > J. 

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Christian Convey
Computer Scientist,
Naval Undersea Warfare Center
Newport, RI
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