pranjal pandit <pranjal5215@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > hello, > presently yum dose not support multithreaded downloads: > > 1)multiple parts download of a single rpm file from a server which would > increase overall download speed especially of the large sized packages. > > 2) simulteneous downloads of two or more packages from different mirrors; > which would again make process faster in case when a large number of small > sized packages are to be downloaded(sizes 20kb 50kb). > > in both the above cases download process can be made faster. > is there a possibilty of any work of this sort to be done #1 is likely much harder to do that #2, which isn't "simple". #2 is "planned" after we move from urlgrabber to "curlgrabber", how fast that goes and how quickly after that #2 happens depends on the available time of people doing the work ... which is to say, patches greatly appreciated :). -- James Antill -- james@xxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum
