Troy, Connie our personal congratulations with 5.3 release and to all FermiLab with a Y(4140) particle discovery! Colleagues, what do you think about delivering ISO-images (especially DVD-images) by the P2P network (bitbake, for example)? It's may be a very useful solution for avoiding single server bottleneck. --Oleg 20/03/2009 16:14 -0500, Troy Dawson wrote: > Hello, > We released SL 5.3 yesterday, and now ftp.scientificlinux.org is running > a little slow. So it is possible that some people are going to get > time-out's when they do yum updates. > I apologize, but at the moment, there isn't alot I can do but wait for > the wave to pass over. > > If you are wondering about the load on the machine (this is a dual > opteron machine, just one core per processor) > > ftp.scientificlinux.org > Load: 1550 (fluxuating between 1500 and 1600) > http connections: 258 > ftp connections: 3166 > rsync connections: 15 > > The one thing that has me concerned is the rsync connections. People > really should change their scripts to move to rsync.scientificlinux.org > instead of ftp.scientificlinux.org. > rsync.scientificlinux.org has an IP address of 131.225.110.33 > It only has 14 current rsync connections, and from the network graphs, > it is getting alot more throughput simply because it isn't bogged down. > > rsync.scientificlinux.org > Load: 2 > rsync connections: 14 > > Thanks > Troy