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Author: onefang
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To: devuan developers internal list
Subject: Re: [devuan-dev] Metrics for mirroring?
On 2021-01-15 10:04:00, Bernard Rosset wrote:
> > 2. Do we know what a mirror might expect for bandwidth usage? I expect this
> > wouldn't be huge for us, since we redirect to Debian for many packages.
>
> Current could autnomously be derived from Devuan's host(s) participating in
> deb.devuan.org, either:
> - Using a specific (virtual) network interface and monitoring ingress
> traffic
> - Monitoring at Web server's level with the help of, say, $bytes_received,
> through some metrics collection system. For instance, Prometheus, with the
> help of https://github.com/knyar/nginx-lua-prometheus for nginx?
> I remember having demonstrated Prometheus to rrq mid-2020
>
> Of course, the limit of this experiment is to suppose deb.devuan.org is
> evenly distributed, which is a pretty wild assumption using a cheap DNS
> round-robin system, especially since hosts usually kinda "stick" to a chosen
> IP address, even if it ends up non-functional.
>
> Bernard (Beer) Rosset
> https://rosset.net/


Correct, we redirect most to Debians package mirrors.

Long ago, when I first created my mirrors, I wrate this -

https://friendsofdevuan.org/doku.php/user:onefang:mirrors

It includes graphs for ISO and package mirror bandwidth usage.

I could post some more recent graphs if needed.

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