[Dev] Mirror a net negative?

[Joshua Ismael Haase Hernandez]

There is a page on wiki that explains how to make a mirror that serves
packages on demand using nginx:

https://wiki.parabolagnulinux.org/Mirroring_On_Demand#Using_Nginx

Maybe you could adapt it to your mirror so it use only the required
amount of bandwith.

On Sat, 14 Apr 2012 10:16:46 +0200, Johannes Krampf <johannes.krampf at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> if I interpret the data correctly, my mirror received ~22GB by syncing 
> with the main mirror, but served only ~7GB in the last 40 days.
> 
> ~~~~
> $ uptime
>   07:35:09 up 40 days, 13:34,  1 user,  load average: 0.02, 0.01, 0.00
> $ /sbin/ifconfig venet0 | grep RX\ bytes
>            RX bytes:24022006592 (22.3 GiB)  TX bytes:7440433941 (6.9 GiB)
> ~~~~
> 
> The log files contain >7000 requests with a "pacman" user agent - fellow 
> paraboleros use the mirror.
> 
> But I wonder if we achieve the goal of saving bandwith to the primary 
> mirror when syncing uses more bandwidth than serving data to users.
> 
> Is this a problem and should we do anything about it?
> 
> - Johannes
> 
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