Re: metacpan losing track of certain CPAN distributions

[email protected] (Leo Lapworth) Sat, 25 Oct 2025 09:24:08 +0100
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Hi Ask,

MetaCPAN is getting quite a few of these:

```
@ERROR: max connections (10) reached -- try again later
rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at main.c(1666)
[Receiver=3D3.1.2]
```

Anything you can do on that?

Cheers

Leo



On Wed, Oct 22, 2025 at 8:26=E2=80=AFPM Olaf Alders <[email protected]=
om>
wrote:

> I just restarted the rrr-client. Let's see if that helps. We already run =
a
> daily rsync to ensure nothing has been missed via rrr.
>
> Olaf
>
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2025, at 3:14 PM, Ask Bj=C3=B8rn Hansen wrote:
>
>
> We rebuilt the primary CPAN mirror source over the last weeks. (It=E2=80=
=99s now
> in Kubernetes and operated via git, including the current version of the
> various decades old tools maintaining metadata).
>
> I tried pretty hard to make sure the RRR recent data was accurate, but I
> had to relearn a bit about how it works in the process so the files had
> some erroneous epochs for a few days.
>
> Maybe metacpan needs a onetime full rsync (or the rrr client restarted?)
>
>
> Ask
>
>
> --
> Olaf Alders
>
> =F0=9F=93=AE [email protected]
> =F0=9F=9A=80 https://prettygoodping.com
>
>
>

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<div dir=3D"ltr">Hi Ask,<div><br></div><div>MetaCPAN is getting quite a few=
 of these:</div><div><br><div>```</div><div>@ERROR: max connections (10) re=
ached -- try again later<br>rsync error: error starting client-server proto=
col (code 5) at main.c(1666) [Receiver=3D3.1.2]</div><div>```</div></div><d=
iv><br></div><div>Anything you can do on that?</div><div><br></div><div>Che=
ers</div><div><br></div><div>Leo</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><=
br><div class=3D"gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir=3D"ltr" class=
=3D"gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 22, 2025 at 8:26=E2=80=AFPM Olaf Alders &lt;<a =
href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>&gt; w=
rote:<br></div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0p=
x 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u><di=
v><div>I just restarted the rrr-client. Let&#39;s see if that helps. We alr=
eady run a daily rsync to ensure nothing has been missed via rrr.</div><div=
><br></div><div>Olaf</div><div><br></div><div>On Wed, Oct 22, 2025, at 3:14=
 PM, Ask Bj=C3=B8rn Hansen wrote:</div><blockquote type=3D"cite" id=3D"m_83=
2795999474040619qt"><div><br></div><div>We rebuilt the primary CPAN mirror =
source over the last weeks. (It=E2=80=99s now in Kubernetes and operated vi=
a git, including the current version of the various decades old tools maint=
aining metadata).</div><div><br></div><div>I tried pretty hard to make sure=
 the RRR recent data was accurate, but I had to relearn a bit about how it =
works in the process so the files had some erroneous epochs for a few days.=
</div><div><br></div><div>Maybe metacpan needs a onetime full rsync (or the=
 rrr client restarted?)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Ask</div></=
blockquote><div><br></div><div id=3D"m_832795999474040619sig121518600"><div=
>--</div><div><span style=3D"font-family:monospace"><span style=3D"font-siz=
e:16px"><span>Olaf Alders</span></span></span></div><div style=3D"color:rgb=
(32,33,36);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-styl=
e:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight=
:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:=
none;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:i=
nitial"><div><span style=3D"font-family:monospace"><span style=3D"font-size=
:16px"><span></span></span></span><br></div><div><div><span style=3D"font-f=
amily:monospace"><span style=3D"font-size:16px"><span>=F0=9F=93=AE <span st=
yle=3D"color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]" =
target=3D"_blank">[email protected]</a></span></span></span></span><=
/div><div><span style=3D"font-family:monospace"><span style=3D"font-size:16=
px"><span><span style=3D"color:rgb(255,255,255)"></span>=F0=9F=9A=80 <a hre=
f=3D"https://prettygoodping.com/" target=3D"_blank">https://prettygoodping.=
com</a></span></span></span></div></div></div><div><br></div></div><div><br=
></div></div></blockquote></div>

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