How about to patch synapatic to make it actively download packages using multiple threads?

[yueyu lin]

The problem to download from multiple server is that multiple servers may
not be synchronized at the same time.
Data synchronization is a serious problem. But I guess this should be better
if we can make sure that multiple servers have the same package files.

On 10/22/07, Nicolas Alvarez <nicolas.alvarez at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/21/07, yueyu lin <popeyelin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > As you noticed, sometimes, synaptic downloads packages slowly. I noticed
> > that apt-get in fact can use multiple threads to download sometimes. But
> > synaptic seems seldom to do this.
> > I wanna know why? In fact, it will not be difficult to modify codes to
> > support active multiple threads downloading. But it doesn't appear. I
> guess
> > developers think it's impolite to fork a lot of threads to download
> things
> > from server. The server may only serve for a few *rude* people. If it's
> > true, I will stop any attempts to do so. If it's not,I can have a try to
> do
> > this.
>
> Using multiple connections to a single server is a sure way to "make
> things worse", that is, overloading the server more. What does help is
> making multiple connections to *different* servers. That actually
> lowers load, since your download bandwidth is now dispersed between
> servers, so you're using up less upstream bandwidth from each server.
> I have been doing so to download the .iso's via HTTP (torrents go
> slowly for me).
>
> --
> Nicolas
>



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