Beck38
10-06-2013, 08:56 PM
Just in case everyone 'fergot' about it, although I did notice some improvement over the last week of better completion, I've also noticed a LOT of complaints in the newsgroups that GN is literally falling apart in front of folks eyeballs.
The last few days, in the groups I heavily monitor, they were doing fairly well; then literally right at midnight (00:01) Sunday morning it was 'off the tracks' completely, on average only picking up 3-5% of parts! Now, the paths have remained about the same over the last couple of weeks, with their main 'feed' this Russian site, and also fed through a dutch site as well (to me, the worse of both worlds).
Those providers who utilize GN as their primary peers are, of course, getting the same lousy completion rate. I'll try doing some deeper checks later on (6 hours from now) particularly with Blocknews, and see if they get a jump on 'back-filling' all those skips (right now, their completion rate is as bad as GN).
What's interesting is that the comments in the newsgroups are almost identical to one another; when folks complain at GN, they invariably come back with 'it must be DMCA removals, not our bad operation'. Right.
What's interesting is I took the time (and effort) to do some 'deep inspection' on both Astra/US and EU earlier, and they are both 'clean as a whistle' with little if any skips and such, even though in the case of Astra/EU it appears their main peer at present is a dutch provider, eweka.nl. Of course, they also probably get some decent 'back-fill' from the US plant as well. But no Russian in their paths.
So, for those GN users, if you are having problems with completion, if you don't have or use Astra as a 'fills' provider, I'd back off and wait a day or two (or three) and see if things do get back-filled' (once again).
The last few days, in the groups I heavily monitor, they were doing fairly well; then literally right at midnight (00:01) Sunday morning it was 'off the tracks' completely, on average only picking up 3-5% of parts! Now, the paths have remained about the same over the last couple of weeks, with their main 'feed' this Russian site, and also fed through a dutch site as well (to me, the worse of both worlds).
Those providers who utilize GN as their primary peers are, of course, getting the same lousy completion rate. I'll try doing some deeper checks later on (6 hours from now) particularly with Blocknews, and see if they get a jump on 'back-filling' all those skips (right now, their completion rate is as bad as GN).
What's interesting is that the comments in the newsgroups are almost identical to one another; when folks complain at GN, they invariably come back with 'it must be DMCA removals, not our bad operation'. Right.
What's interesting is I took the time (and effort) to do some 'deep inspection' on both Astra/US and EU earlier, and they are both 'clean as a whistle' with little if any skips and such, even though in the case of Astra/EU it appears their main peer at present is a dutch provider, eweka.nl. Of course, they also probably get some decent 'back-fill' from the US plant as well. But no Russian in their paths.
So, for those GN users, if you are having problems with completion, if you don't have or use Astra as a 'fills' provider, I'd back off and wait a day or two (or three) and see if things do get back-filled' (once again).