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On 2/27/06, Alexander Skwar <listen@×××××××××××××××.name> wrote: |
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> El Nino wrote: |
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> > is there a way to accelerate the fetching part of emerge |
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> > by using prozilla or some other tool? |
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> I never quite understood the sense in those tools. |
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> Why should "prozilla or some other tool" make the |
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> download be faster? When I download something with |
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> wget, or watch emerge invoking wget, it's always |
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> maxing out the saturation of the line. |
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Well, if you have a high bandwidth line, like 8MB ADSL for example, |
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the host providing the download usually limit your download speed |
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reserving some band to other requests. If you could "teach" portage to |
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fetch pieces (like some other tools do) from different mirrors till |
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you saturate your line, your download would be considerably faster |
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(all your band would be used). |
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So, lets say I can use a program and tell it to use the GENTOO_MIRRORS |
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variable to download various pieces of the same file (reaching the |
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mirror servers limit and after a while your band limit), this would |
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ensure you would always use the max band you can... I think I saw some |
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tool over the net that could do that... Maybe wget itself.... |
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/me go read the man pages... |
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