GNU bug report logs - #26201
Downloading substitutes is too slow upon nginx cache misses

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Package: guix;

Reported by: <dian_cecht <at> zoho.com>

Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 01:46:02 UTC

Severity: important

Tags: fixed

Done: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #35 received at 26201 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: <dian_cecht <at> zoho.com>
To: Florian Pelz <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de>
Cc: 26201 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#26201: No notification of cache misses when downloading
 substitutes
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 08:35:36 -0700

On Tue, 21 Mar 2017 13:59:27 +0100
Florian Pelz <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de> wrote:

> On Mon, 2017-03-20 at 21:48 -0700, dian_cecht <at> zoho.com wrote:
> > Another option would be to have the mirrors automatically cache the
> > files as soon as they are available to try. I'd hope this would be
> > how things are handled already, but one never knows.
> >   
> 
> If it cached everything, it wouldn’t be a cache?

If the point is to reduce the load on hydra, then at some point it
could have everything. If it doesn't, then why have a mirror when it's
just pulling right the source all the time anyways?
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