That's why mirrors are pulled from http://www.postgresql.org, nor are they
pulled using what I'd guess you are using ( wget? ) below, but using rsync
... hasn't been for years now ...
In fact, over the next little while, http://www.postgresql.org will
actually be pointing to an RR DNS entry, and not even the 'base server'
... I've just gotta sit down and update the DNS generation scripts for
this ...
On Sun, 31 Oct 2004, Alexey Borzov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm testing the mirroring script for new version of postgresql.org and the
> results are *interesting*:
>
> Oct 31 10:11:32 mirror [info] Mirroring finished. 423 page(s) saved, 1226
> second(s) spent
>
> ~3 seconds per page is a bit too much, don't you think? Also please note that
> it took ~20 minutes to save the pages *not including* the documentation,
> which is *several thousand* pages in size!
>
> Here are the results for mirroring of just 7.4 "interactive" docs:
>
> Oct 31 11:12:46 mirror [info] Mirroring finished. 603 page(s) saved, 2716
> second(s) spent
>
> That's >4 seconds per page...
>
> These are the pages from wwwdevel, but as www and wwwdevel are on one box
> physically, you get the unpleasant picture. It actually worked faster on my
> test server and that is P2-233. Also please note that today is Sunday, I
> doubt it will be faster on weekday.
>
> Dunno about you, but if that was my site I'd already be searching for another
> hosting. I'm sure that some hosters will be glad to even donate that to
> PostgreSQL project.
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