Re: [Sks-devel] [GnuPG-users] sks-keyservers.net: Changes to pools / SRV Weights

[Kristian Fiskerstrand]

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On 2012-05-13 13:58, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
> On 2012-05-13 07:48, Gabor Kiss wrote:
>> Dear Kristian,
> 

> 
> * Updating the pool more frequently, it now updates every two
> hours (why is it relevant that it is updating more frequently?
> Since SKS version 1.1.2 the statistics calculation can be updated
> more frequently by using "pkill -USR2 sks || exit 1" in e.g. a
> crontab. Which means that servers not doing this at times will lag
> behind in keys and be excluded -- you'll notice that this changes
> throughout the day, the further away from the regular scheduled
> statistics update of the older versions)
> 

Another consequence of updating more frequently, and during the time
of day when the servers are more active, is of course also that if the
server is unable to respond due to the single-thread nature - and if
no reverse proxy is there to balance the load - it will be shown as
bad HKP status and excluded until the next run.

So more reverse-proxy enabled servers* would be a good thing for the
pool.

* (as an aside, I've added apache2 to the test now, in addition to nginx)

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