[Bug 1554848] Re: Please randomise automatic updates over a longer period

[Michael Vogt]

I started some work on this in
https://github.com/mvo5/apt/commit/4ee4b0b9cbbc64fb0b545f367a4dd8f7a11570b6

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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.

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