Don Russell wrote:
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Don Russell
<fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
The last few times I've used "yum update", I noticed the files are
downloaded in order, smallest first.
Is that deliberate, or just a coincidence?
If it is deliberate, I'd like to suggest sorting in the other
direction so largest is downloaded first.
That way, while I'm waiting for it, I can always tell that the
"next" file will be the same size or smaller than the one just
completed, so I can better estimate how long it will be.
Also, perception-wise, it gives the *appearance* that the process is
speeding up instead of slowing down. :-)
And, after all down loads are complete... a little summary of the
average transfer rate would be nice.
I like the new "scale" showing total % and individual file %...
I filed a bug/enhancement, which was closed as "won't fix"
Ref: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=451047
I guess the explanation there confirms "I'm not normal". :-)
My guess would be that a bunch of people would start trying to download
the largest files causing the most contention for the longest time,
whereas the smaller files copy quickly helping to spread out the demand
across various files. Not sure it that helps or hurts disk caches at
the other end. B^)
Why can't they make it configurable now that they've bothered to add it
at all? Then they can default it to the current state....
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