freshness status of ubuntu mirrors in launchpad

[Carlos Carvalho]

Guilherme Salgado (salgado at async.com.br) wrote on 31 May 2007 10:57:
 >The freshness is obtained from our automatic checker, which is run only
 >once a day. Sometimes the checker is run a few minutes before the mirror
 >is synced against archive.ubuntu.com, thus making the freshness innacurate
 >shortly after the checker finishes.

In this case it should say one day behind at most but when I looked it
was saying 3 days behind. That's why I complained. I've just checked
again and it's one day, so it's normal now.

 >I don't think there's much we can do
 >to alleviate this other than running the checker multiple times every day
 >(something that may annoy some mirror admins and maybe even trigger
 >anti-DoS scripts on some of them). If you have any ideas on how to improve
 >that, please let us know. :)

Once a day is fine for me.

Thanks for the answers.