On 12/13/2011 01:39 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 12/13/2011 03:26 PM, Alan Cox wrote: >> On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 07:57:54 -0500 >> Genes MailLists<lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> >>> I just had the lovely experience of abrt trying to be helpful - a GUI >>> crash - and wanting to download 1.2 GB of debuginfo files including >>> things it quite obviously (to a human) does not need. >> >> It's not bright in some cases. Just tell it not to. The newest version of >> abrt will upload dumps to a server to crunch instead which is a lot more >> sociable. > > Which file sizes are you talking about? > > If these files are getting too big, users with, say GSM or low-bandwidth > upstream connections may disagree. > > At least around here, it's common that a home user's DSL or cable > connection's upstream bandwidth is a magnitude smaller than his > downstream bandwidth. > > Ralf The files which are costly are the debuginfo packages. So, the traceback file is only a few KB - while the debuginfo is more like 1.2 GB (in my case) ... so 3 orders of magnitude larger .. so even if your upload is 10 times slower you're still 100 times better off. Plus - whatever data caps are in play (mobile broadband) will be more impacted by the GB download than the small 1k upload upload ... gene/ -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
