Am 18.05.2012 17:34, schrieb José Matos: > On 2012-05-18 15:23, Glen Turner wrote: >> Hi Zdenek, >> >> Why is the default three connections rather than one? Is a tripling of >> the number of connections to a mirror on a Fedora release day desirable? >> Consider that a large mirror site already sees concurrent connections in >> the multiple 10,000s. >> >> Cheers, Glen > > The total number of connections should be the same, as far as I > understand only the number of connections from a single host will be three. > Since it should be safe to assume that the downloads are independent > events then there should not be any significant difference for busy > servers. :-) why are making the connections to the SAME mirror at all? it would make much more sense to download packages parallel and each one from a different mirror currently the largest problem is that most mirrors does not reflect as example my 100 Mbit downstream connection and "yum-plugin-fastest-mirror" makes completly wrong decisions
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