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From: Beginner <beginner@××××××.net>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Improvement suggestion for emerge: Not using a new connection for every file
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 01:00:45
Message-Id: 45E0DF7D.4010508@frubar.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Improvement suggestion for emerge: Not using a new connection for every file by Andrew Gaffney
1 Andrew Gaffney schrieb:
2 > Beginner wrote:
3 >> Hi,
4 >>
5 >> I recommend not to use wget and not to reconnect to the server for
6 >> every single packet, but to hold the connection
7 >> therefore spare traffic and download more fast.
8 >
9 > Uhh, what exactly are you talking about? There is very little overhead
10 > to reconnecting to a server to download a second file. Also, how often
11 > are multiple files downloaded from the same server? Probably not very
12 > often. I've heard of people trying to rice their binaries, but ricing
13 > your downloads? :P
14 >
15 When I make a -uDa world emerge loads an lot of files from a ftp-mirror
16 and at every file wget ist logging in as anonymous/chdir/set passive
17 mode, i thinked that it is better to keep the ftpconnection and only
18 send a retr for every file, i think emerge is coded in python so this
19 can be handeld by the ftplib.
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