[Imc-uk-features] {Spam?} Re: Imc-uk-features Digest, Vol 44, Issue 37

[Zak]

Mike D wrote:

> I have been running startpage.generate which updates the publication
> site okay, but synchronization.run does not appear to update the
> production site(s).
> 
> Usually after some arbitrary period of time the newswire will
> reflect the latest updates but refreshing the homepage often brings
> back varying results. Is this due to different mirror sites being
> out of sync, and why do they take so long to update?

Yep, that's pretty much it -- each mirror syncs roughly every 15
minutes, but because the server is heavily loaded it sometimes takes longer.

A few of us are currently working on a more efficient system for
updating the mirrors, which should reduce this delay significantly.


Zak.