On 2017-05-21, Han Boetes <h...@boetes.org> wrote: > Hi there, > > I noticed patch #8 was already more than 2 days late from the mirror I > was using. To find out which servers are more or less up to date I > wrote a little script and here is the output. > > This is of course a snapshot in time, on the other hand I hope this > list will benefit the community, either by admins improving the > syncing of their mirrors where needed, and admins on mission critical > systems getting better insight in which servers are really up to date.
Looking at a snapshot in time is misleading because most mirrors fetch the whole set of OpenBSD-related files in one sync with an interlock so that there's only one sync job running at a time. Therefore when there are 2-3 arches worth of packages updating at once (60+GB) things get delayed a bit more than usual. If any mirror operators want to change this, just run a separate sync job for patches and syspatch that runs more frequently, and exclude those directories from the main sync. (It's also misleading because most of your "more than 2 day(s) late" ones are only late because their upstream, ftp.eu, is a bit behind at present).
