On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 10:52 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > I've got a reasonable amount of bandwidth here. I just don't see why > the people running the mirrors enjoy sending many times the number > of copies that would be needed if existing cache mechanisms were > not thwarted by randomizing the URLs the way yum does it. I'm > sorry you consider pointing out this waste of resources as bitching. > Round-robin DNS would work if the repositories were in the same relative > location. Any scheme that would more frequently choose the same mirror > from the same location would work better than filling caches with > randomly chosen URLs that won't be reused. I agree. Mike is not bitching, just making suggestions that seem valid from his personal experience and there is room for improvement in Yum. I do not have this level of competence myself, but an appeal to those that do might light up a few synapses, think about Mike's idea and decide it's merits. No harm in that at all, so I would not classify his post as bitching. I wouldn't classify another's post as bitching if I wasn't prepared to go to his house, knock on his door and say it to his face, up close and personal. But, I'm old school. Ric
