Am 20.05.2012 07:02, schrieb Rob K: > On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 1:34 AM, José Matos <jamatos@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> 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. :-) > > 3 times x is 3x. Tripling the stampede on a busy server for a dubious > increase in personal speed is kind of rude, from the mirror manager's > point of view. The 'ftp accelerators' that divvy up a download into a > hundred ftp range requests is pathological enough to deal with. i generally do not understand how someone comes to the idea in context of "parallel downloading" making more than one connection to the SAME creeping mirror as i first read "yum: parallel downloading" i was happy and thought "yeah, the problem with creeping updates will be solved" and as i saw how this should be implemented i could not believe my yes > Before this work proceeds, can we please see some hard numbers, and > get some input from mirror managers? if they read this idea i fear they stopped breathing :-( PLEASE: stop this idea as long it doe snot spread the donwloads over different mirrors because the current direction makes only damage in the infrastructure with less improvement for the user
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