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I can see it myself from home. I do note that RHEL 7 is being
obsoleted within a couple of months. Will the Scientific Linux 7 at
this site be archived, or kept alive indefinitely?

On Fri, Mar 29, 2024 at 4:41 PM Patrick Riehecky <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I'll take a look!
>
> Pat
>
> On Fri, 2024-03-29 at 20:34 +0000, Seth Lohr wrote:
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> > [EXTERNAL] – This message is from an external sender
> >
> >
> > Since 2024-03-24 (5 days ago) there's been an uptick in issues when
> > trying to rsync off this URI:
> >
> >
> > rsync://rsync.scientificlinux.org/scientific/
> >
> >
> > This is the error we're getting
> >
> >
> > Error message:
> > @ERROR: max connections (150) reached -- try again later
> > rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at
> > main.c(1656) [Receiver=3.1.2]
> >
> >
> > The various looking around I've done seems to point to stuck
> > connections in some capacity, but I'm unsure whether this is a
> > problem on our side (client) or if it's an issue with scientificlinux
> > only being able to handle 150 concurrent connections on the rsync
> > port.
> >
> >
> > Am I alone in being the only person to see this issue start in the
> > last week?  We've been syncing the repository since at least 2013.
> > Issues like this come up sporadically, but in the last 22 syncs since
> > the 24th, this issue has happened 13 times of of the 22.  The other
> > times, our since finished in about 1 min or two.
> >
> >
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