Re: mirror and perl

Christoph P. Kukulies wrote:
> > > > My freebsd.org mirroring is still very flaky using mirror.2.3
> > > > and perl5.001.
> > > > Once, when trying to mirror larger trees, I got an Out of Memory!
> > > > message in my mirror log file and this happened during scanning the
> > > > remote site. I'm now running the mirror script with the -F option -
> > > > btw there is a bug in the mirror script, bigtmp is mixed up with
> > > > bigtemp.
> >
> > Please try again with mirror-2.8 (sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk
> > packages/mirror/mirror-2.8.tar.gz)
>
> Sorry, I *am* using mirror 2.8 (2.3 was a typo on my side).

Oh dear! I've found mirror-2.8 + perl5.001m to be pretty good.

I'm working on mirror-2.9 which can do things a different way, to
over come this kind of problem. Touch wood it will be out in a
couple of weeks.

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