I'm going to do so. The first assumption is that a set of repository servers have synchronized data correctly. But that will be ok after the md5sum verification.<div> <div>On 10/22/07, Nicolas Alvarez <<a href="mailto:nicolas.alvarez@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">nicolas.alvarez@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On 10/21/07, yueyu lin <<a href="mailto:popeyelin@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">popeyelin@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > On 10/22/07, Nicolas Alvarez <<a href="mailto:nicolas.alvarez@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> nicolas.alvarez@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > > On 10/21/07, yueyu lin <<a href="mailto:popeyelin@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">popeyelin@gmail.com</a>> 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). > > > 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. > File gives 404 => try another server. Server times out because of load => try another server. Server is downloading way too slowly compared to the other connections => disconnect from it and try another server. -- Nicolas </blockquote></div> </div>-- -- Yueyu Lin -- -- Yueyu Lin