drifting away from the edge

After debugging all problems that were invented by securing the server with Adrian this morning I finally could start to sync the current SL-OSS-edge directory from the drpmsync server. I already had a local image of the full tree from the time when alpha 2 was released and thus expected to have a fast sync to the current state but there still are problems. The first one was that the delta set was quite incomplete in the beginning and thus instead of deltas often the full RPMs got transfered. Fortunately this seems to have been only a startup problem because later files show this problem more seldom. Now the current problem is that drpmsync.opensuse.org serves the deltas such extremely slow that I can sync less deltas than get added on a daily basis. The server sends data at a rate between 0KB/s and about 40KB/s, most of the time being less than 2KB/s. This leads to the result that people are drifting slowly away from the "edge" distribution. My current backlog is 58 hours and slowly increasing. There are only three solutions to fix this problem. Either the SUSE stuff slows down their work or they make the clock run slower or the drpmsync service gets faster. Let's hope they add some more machines in the near future to balance the load.