Actually: https://github.com/mvo5/apt/pull/10 - this should make it much more random because there is no fixed "cron.daily" time anymore, its all based on boot time + randomize which should be much more random that what we have today.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1554848 Title: Please randomise automatic updates over a longer period Status in apt package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in unattended-upgrades package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in apt source package in Xenial: Confirmed Status in unattended-upgrades source package in Xenial: Confirmed Bug description: Load on the main Ubuntu archive servers is rather peakish, and tends to create a traffic peak on our Internet links at fairly regular times each day, preventing customers from accessing the archive. This impacts the cloud archive mirrors using the ubuntu-repository-cache charm also, because they are hitting a squid cache which is backed by the main archive. This effect will be even more pronounced under the recently-announced automatic update policy for xenial. One solution which would alleviate this to some extent would be to spread the load over a longer period by increasing the random sleep time in the daily update script from 30 minutes to, say, 1-2 hours. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1554848/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
