autobuilders and redownloading all sources from classpath.org servers

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi,

If you are running an autobuilder against the sources of one of the
classpath.org servers (especially icedtea.classpath.org) could you
please double check that you are not unnecessarily redownloading
download drops and/or whole forests when there have been no changes
since the last time. The server is already over bandwidth limits and
every unnecessary GB download costs us a little extra money.

If you happen to operate an autobuilder on
93-38-70-169.ip69.fastwebnet.it (93.38.70.169) please contact me to see
if we can setup something more efficient. I sadly had to disable
downloads from this host since it was using up ~15%+ of all traffic on
the server.

Thanks,

Mark

[Andrew Hughes-7]

----- Original Message -----

> Hi,
>
> If you are running an autobuilder against the sources of one of the
> classpath.org servers (especially icedtea.classpath.org) could you
> please double check that you are not unnecessarily redownloading
> download drops and/or whole forests when there have been no changes
> since the last time. The server is already over bandwidth limits and
> every unnecessary GB download costs us a little extra money.
>
> If you happen to operate an autobuilder on
> 93-38-70-169.ip69.fastwebnet.it (93.38.70.169) please contact me to
> see
> if we can setup something more efficient. I sadly had to disable
> downloads from this host since it was using up ~15%+ of all traffic
> on
> the server.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
>

Maybe it's worth looking at having a '--disable-downloading' option for
the IcedTea build which can be used on autobuilders to make them fail instead?
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[Mark Wielaard]

On Tue, 2012-03-06 at 06:43 -0500, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> Maybe it's worth looking at having a '--disable-downloading' option for
> the IcedTea build which can be used on autobuilders to make them fail instead?

What would that configure option do precisely?
Autobuilders still need to fetch the sources don't they?

All I am hoping is that they don't do it multiple times a day, even when
there have been no changes since the last run, as some of them seem to
do now for the whole forest and/or download/drops.

Thanks,

Mark