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From: Dave Nebinger <dnebinger@××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] accelerate emerge
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 18:39:21
Message-Id: 440345D8.5060605@joat.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] accelerate emerge by Hans-Werner Hilse
1 Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
2 >> Why should "prozilla or some other tool" make the
3 >> download be faster? When I download something with
4 >> wget, or watch emerge invoking wget, it's always
5 >> maxing out the saturation of the line.
6 >
7 > On my 1Gig line on my workstation at work it's usually _not_ saturizing
8 > the line. But I decided that it's not very polite to use a parallel
9 > fetching tool under these circumstances...
10
11 I would bet that has more to do with traffic shaping on your connection
12 to the external world than anything to do with the local bandwidth, in
13 which case you could probably parallel all you want w/o improving
14 download performance.
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