On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Kevin Fenzi <ke...@scrye.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Nov 2012 16:04:43 -0600 > Chris Adams <cmad...@hiwaay.net> wrote: > > > Posting here, mainly because I'm not really sure where else to ask... > > > > I run a Fedora mirror (mirror.hiwaay.net). I noticed that I have been > > seeing a significantly higher HTTP request rate than normal. My > > mirror usually sees a couple of hundred requests per minute, but it > > has been running a steady 1500 requests per minute for most of > > today. It hit 4000 requests per minute around mid-day Wednesday (US > > Central time). > > > > I poked through the logs, and I see lots of requests for the file: > > > > > /pub/fedora/linux/updates/17/x86_64/repodata/34881e74623de1754bf0e12f01884bea615fdcee05eded189f22d41bf9d4260b-other.sqlite.bz2 > > > > That file no longer exists; it was on my mirror from 21:12 Monday to > > 22:17 Tuesday. > > > > I see the same IP requesting that file (and getting a 404 error) a > > dozen times in less than a minute. I'm guessing there's either a yum > > bug or a broken repo push that is: > > > > - causing yum to try to fetch an out-of-date repodata file > > - causing it to try over and over again rapidly > > > > This is accounting for about a third of all requests to my mirror > > right now. > > Strange. Could be the previous days updates push, but then it should be > getting new repodata/seeing the change from the metalink. > > It should also be normally trying multiple mirrors, not a bunch of > times to the same one. :( > > Is it all the same IP? Perhaps a horribly misconfigured machine... > > kevin > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > I get this issue on my F16/F17 machines if I forget to run "yum clean" before "yum update" - a lot of 404s. This only occurs on a less-frequent than default update schedule, such as bimonthly. Darton
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