Microsoft's Windows beat operating system rivals Mac OS X and Ubuntu in a three-month test of update server uptime, according to Pingdom, a Swedish uptime monitoring company.
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Member since:2007-09-06
Get yourself a local repository.
I do a lot of building VMs for various whims. Besides the time it takes for the updates to transfer and install, there is also the consumption of my monthly bandwidth alotment (ah, big name ISPs). My solution was to write a quick script against rsync and mirror the repositories on my local NAS through http. I then leave them open to my lan through my own httpd. Another script cleans out and adds the local NAS repositories. A quick rerun of the repository sync script captures any new packages. If the repositories are slow then cron the script. The rest of the traffic between various builds installing or updating happens inside my own network space at full speed. The only slowdown is the actual installing step.
With Mandriva 2009 out soon, I'll have to see about adding in another mirror set. Hopefully I can confirm that nothing is still running 2007.1 and drop that mirror out of the NAS to free up space.
Member since:
2008-07-07
I personnaly prefer a non 100% uptime server (I use linux and never had such trouble as there was hundred of update server, but let's imagine
) but a 100% FAST update server! When installing a PC, the updates takes more time than the install itself !!