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| From: | Chris Bainbridge <C.J.Bainbridge@×××××.uk> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] Idea for the portage maintainers | ||
| Date: | Tue, 13 Apr 2004 16:12:09 | ||
| Message-Id: | 200404131712.00632.C.J.Bainbridge@ed.ac.uk | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-dev] Idea for the portage maintainers by Chris Bainbridge |
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| 1 | On Tuesday 13 April 2004 13:18, Chris Bainbridge wrote: |
| 2 | > The test of rsyncing uncompressed distfile sources rather than downloading |
| 3 | > them gave an 88% improvement in bandwidth. |
| 4 | |
| 5 | I should add that rsyncing from an old distfiles tarball to the new one used |
| 6 | 323k downstream + 58k up, when downloading the new bzip2 file would've used |
| 7 | about 2.6MB downstream. So uncompressed tar+rsync is over 8x more bandwidth |
| 8 | efficient. |
| 9 | |
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