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

[Mark Blackman]

> On 27 Mar 2020, at 10:36, Richard Paul <Richard at primarysite.net> wrote:
> 
> Dear hubs@,
> 
> We're having frequent issues with timeouts with the 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