Re: metacpan losing track of certain CPAN distributions

[email protected] (Robert Spier) Sat, 25 Oct 2025 17:10:32 +0200
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I've sent you a special hostname to switch to.  If you could avoid making
it public, that would be appreciated.  If there's no way to not make it
public, we'll need to do some more complicated configuration.

Are you doing more than 1 rsync at a time?

-R

On Sat, Oct 25, 2025 at 10:24=E2=80=AFAM Leo Lapworth <[email protected]> wrot=
e:

> 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 <olaf@wundersolutions=
.com>
> 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"><br><div>I&#39;ve sent you a special hostname to switch to=
.=C2=A0 If you could avoid making it public, that would be appreciated.=C2=
=A0 If there&#39;s no way to not make it public, we&#39;ll need to do some =
more complicated configuration.</div><div><br></div><div>Are you doing more=
 than 1 rsync at a time?</div><div><br></div><div>-R</div></div><br><div cl=
ass=3D"gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_a=
ttr">On Sat, Oct 25, 2025 at 10:24=E2=80=AFAM Leo Lapworth &lt;<a href=3D"m=
ailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote cl=
ass=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid=
 rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><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) reached -- try again later<br>rsync error=
: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at main.c(1666) [Receiver=
=3D3.1.2]</div><div>```</div></div><div><br></div><div>Anything you can do =
on that?</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div><br></div><div>Leo</div>=
<div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><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]" target=3D"_blank">ol=
[email protected]</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_q=
uote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,2=
04);padding-left:1ex"><u></u><div><div>I just restarted the rrr-client. Let=
&#39;s see if that helps. We already run a daily rsync to ensure nothing ha=
s been missed via rrr.</div><div><br></div><div>Olaf</div><div><br></div><d=
iv>On Wed, Oct 22, 2025, at 3:14 PM, Ask Bj=C3=B8rn Hansen wrote:</div><blo=
ckquote type=3D"cite" id=3D"m_7020529434666707989m_832795999474040619qt"><d=
iv><br></div><div>We rebuilt the primary CPAN mirror source over the last w=
eeks. (It=E2=80=99s now in Kubernetes and operated via git, including the c=
urrent version of the various decades old tools maintaining metadata).</div=
><div><br></div><div>I tried pretty hard to make sure the RRR recent data w=
as accurate, but I had to relearn a bit about how it works in the process s=
o 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_7020529434666707989m_832795999474040619sig121518600"><div>=
--</div><div><span style=3D"font-family:monospace"><span style=3D"font-size=
: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-style=
:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:=
400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:n=
one;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:in=
itial"><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-fa=
mily:monospace"><span style=3D"font-size:16px"><span>=F0=9F=93=AE <span sty=
le=3D"color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]" t=
arget=3D"_blank">[email protected]</a></span></span></span></span></=
div><div><span style=3D"font-family:monospace"><span style=3D"font-size:16p=
x"><span><span style=3D"color:rgb(255,255,255)"></span>=F0=9F=9A=80 <a href=
=3D"https://prettygoodping.com/" target=3D"_blank">https://prettygoodping.c=
om</a></span></span></span></div></div></div><div><br></div></div><div><br>=
</div></div></blockquote></div>
</blockquote></div>

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