Frequent daytime Pkg timeouts on http://pkg0.bme.freebsd.org/

[Richard Paul]

Whilst the server was taken down for a few days, it's now back up, and the slowdowns and timeouts of packages are back too.


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Kind regards,

Richard Paul
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On Sun, 2020-03-29 at 20:42 +0100, Mark Blackman wrote:

On 27 Mar 2020, at 10:36, Richard Paul <

<mailto:Richard at primarysite.net>

Richard at primarysite.net

> wrote:


Dear hubs@,


We're having frequent issues with timeouts with the

<http://pkg0.bme.freebsd.org/>

http://pkg0.bme.freebsd.org/

 end point.  This is

our geographically proximate pkg end point.  I can see quite often issues with latency with this

service (I've not bothered to set up a smokeping server to monitor this but I expect that from my

experience of browsing and frequent and constant daily timeouts whilst trying to update and install

packages with the default settings for pkg of 3 retries and 30s timeout, that this server infrastructure is having some quite serious issues with performance; and has been ongoing for a few months.)


I spoke with some of the people (unofficially) at Bytemark but I was eventually directed here to

seek assistance.


I am seeing this too, for what it is worth. What’s going on?  Can I help?


Regards,

Mark