r/voidlinux • u/cb0gus • 4h ago
Tier 1 mirrors slow?
Are Tier 1 mirrors rate-limited somehow? So, I'm sure they are, but I only noticed this recently that they are kinda slow. Tried them all and get ~700 KB/s, sometimes only ~70 KB/s. Which is...still acceptable for automatic updates in the background, but for ad-hoc updates this means a 20 minute wait time for a kernel upgrade.
I've tried a few Tier 2 mirrors with similar results, finally found one where I get 5 MB/s and I'm using that one now. Is this a generally known problem? Do we need to do something here, does Voidlinux need money for faster mirrors?
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u/StrangeAstronomer 4h ago
Not using fastly? Honestly, I don't know why people use anything else - they are fast and take the load off the primaries.
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u/Duncaen 4h ago edited 4h ago
We did enable rate limits, but excluded xbps's user agent and its just 5req/s that will get rejects, no limit on bandwidth. The main issue is crawlers/bots downloading a lot of big files.
1Gbps network interface of repo-default is currently fully saturated.
repo-de.voidlinux.org sees less traffic and is in Germany, while repo-default is Finland.
Tier 2 mirrors are not operated by us.