cvsup vs. portsnap (was Re: cvsup problem)

[Kent Stewart]

On Thursday 10 November 2005 06:55 am, Daniel Gerzo wrote:
> Szia Andrew,
>
> Thursday, November 10, 2005, 3:47:32 PM, you wrote:
> > There are a couple more points against portsnap:
> > - it lags behind by a few hours.
>
> Actually, even cvsup is behind by a few hours, if you are not syncing
> agains cvsup-master (to which only official cvsup mirrors have
> access, and maybe even not all of them :)) so it depends on how often
> is your cvsup-mirror beeing sinced.
>
> > - setting up a mirror is still undocumented

I have found that updating a mirror takes on the order of 10 minutes. 
They are setup by default to update on the hour, so, I update at some 
point after 15 minutes after the hour. I move my mirror update until I 
quit getting busy timeouts. I am updating at 30 minutes after now 
simply because it is a convenient number :). Watching cvs-all and my 
updates, my mirror gets code that was modified ~10 minutes before the 
hour, which is when the mirrors update.  Cvsup isn't that far behind if 
you wait for your mirror to update. If you are patient, you are only 
1:10 behind at the most. Just don't update before 10-15 minutes after 
the hour and updating more than once an hour doesn't normally 
accomplish anything. You just consume more bandwidth needlessly.

Kent

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