Re: [Gnu-arch-users] New feature at the mirror + request for help

[Dustin Sallings]

On Mar 22, 2004, at 22:50, James Blackwell wrote:

> By the time the supermirror is maxed out with about 2,000 archives, a 
> find
> operation on the tree will take about 20 minutes to run and will bog
> down any other operation that is occuring at the same time. In all
> fairness, I suppose a cache building operation could be done only once 
> a
> day....

	You can also limit updates to only those archives which have changes.  
Some archives will go through rotation and others just won't be changed 
very frequently.

	The update process itself shouldn't cost much more than a replay.  It 
knows what patches have been applied, and what patches need to be 
applied.  It's a few readdirs to get the current patch list per branch 
to see if there are any new ones.

	There's no reason for it to be anywhere nearly as expensive as 
expensive as a full-tree find.

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