[Gllug] Strange download effect

[Chris Bell]

On Fri 20 May, John Winters wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 09:32 +0100, Chris Bell wrote:
> > Hello,
> >    I am trying to download CD images using Jigdo. My local mirrors provide
> > many of the files, any remainder are collected using an alternate address
> > provided by the downloaded template and jigdo files. The fallback, from
> > (195.224.53.39) us.cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/snapshot/Debian/ repeatedly
> > starts fairly fast, rapidly slows to a crawl, then timeouts.
> 
> That's our old friend open.hands.com.  It went through a phase a few
> weeks ago of being very slow at downloads and it seems to be happening
> again now.
> 
> I mirror a small subset of the debian mirror each night (at 1 a.m.).
> Usually it takes no longer than 15 minutes or so, but last night the job
> ran from 1 a.m to 6 a.m. and got no more than a handful of files.  (The
> job is killed at 6 because that's when my ISP starts metering usage.)
> 
> According to Phil, open.hands.com is/was experiencing some periods of
> very heavy load due to jobs running on it.  I'd give it a day or two and
> see whether the sluggishness passes.
> 
> Cheers,
> John
> 
   Thanks for the info, Sarge is scheduled for release on May 30, so it is
probably due to the rush to download. There are plenty of mirrors for the
stable Woody, a few for Sarge rc3, but hardly any for some of the testing
snapshots.

-- 
Chris Bell

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