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Issue migrated (2015-06-05) from old issue tracker http://mirrorbrain.org/issues/issue76

Title    Metalinks could be significantly smaller if not all mirrors are
              listed
 Priority   wish                      Status           chatting
Superseder                          Nosy List          poeml
Assigned To poeml                    Keywords

msg281 (view) Author: poeml Date: 2010-09-24.15:17:39

Looking at the size of Metalinks, it is apparent that they can become quite
large, if they contain a lot of mirrors.

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13130 Sep 24 16:49 metalink with ~100 mirrors
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1575 Sep 24 16:49 metalink with 1 mirror

Of course, compression would alleviate the problem:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2635 Sep 24 16:49 metalink with ~100 mirrors.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1012 Sep 24 16:49 metalink with 1 mirror.gz

I think it might be useful to limit the number of mirrors to, let's say, 15-30,
and thereby limit the size of metalinks.

History
         Date         User  Action            Args
2012-04-16 04:54:11 poeml set    status: unread -> chatting
2010-09-24 15:17:39 poeml create

(end of migrated issue)