openSUSE admin

I have been asked by Christian Deckelmann to forward this to the above two email addresses. Thanks.
Hi,

I noticed during the regular upgrade process of an opensuse installation, some packages are in fact delivered from provo-mirror.opensuse.org.
When checking on which mirrors a file is, provo-mirror.opensuse.org is the only one in the US region:
https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Virtualization/openSUSE_Factory/noarch/qemu-ovmf-x86_64-2019+git1550452308.c417c1b33d06-95.3.noarch.rpm.mirrorlist
Current output of that is this:
[cid:part1.38C28E51.608E070F@microfocus.com]

Checking the traffic which is sent from Provo to the internet over the last 24 hours revealed that provo-mirror.opensuse.org has done 35.9% of all outgoing traffic.
To set this into perspective, here are the top 5 talkers:
[cid:part2.B3429778.D79633EB@microfocus.com]

Running the same over the last week shows that provo-mirror has caused 21.9% of all outgoing traffic.
[cid:part3.217626EC.4605D15A@microfocus.com]

I don´t think it is good if only provo-mirror has content for a specific region. It shouldn´t be used as the single mirror.
US based opensuse clients will fetch certain content from Provo only as there is no other mirror known to the CDN system running on download.opensuse.org.

I briefly told the opensuse admins about that and they asked if we can provide this as a ticket to them (suse-it@suse.desuse-it@suse.de andadmin@opensuse.orgadmin@opensuse.org).
They would then look into moving this traffic away to another colo in the US.

Christian

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Christian Deckelmann
IT Network Architect
Micro Focus
christian.deckelmann@microfocus.comchristian.deckelmann@microfocus.com