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