Re: pyzor timeouts this morning

[Edward B. <ed...@ba...>]

Frank Tobin wrote:

> Ron E., on 2004-01-28, wrote:
> 
>>I've been having some serious pyzor timeouts this morning resulting in
>>quite some backlogs. I ran a discover but the timeouts continue. Anyone
>>have any idea what the cause of this is?
> 
> I haven't performed much analysis yet, but my first guess is that the 
> pyzor server starting to get too many requests...
> I'm going to have to implement randomly selecting servers or rate-limiting 
> for very heavy clients.

Hi Frank,

Thanks for all your work on Pyzor.  It's a great utility for a lot of 
people.

It would be great to see a mirror network of some sort develop for 
pyzor.  For those who have some bandwidth to spare, it would be a great 
way to contribute.  If there were a few servers to choose from, you 
could take something like the netselect utility for debian (for finding 
the fastest apt mirror):

http://packages.debian.org/stable/net/netselect.html

And customize it for use against a set of known pyzor servers.  I'm sure 
there are other utilities to work from as well.

What would be the resource requirements for hosting a pyzor server?  How 
much disk space and bandwidth would it require?  Even with all the spam 
out there, my guess is that all those signatures take up very little 
disk space.  Not sure about the bandwidth though.

Cheers,
Edward