Using zsync for .deb downloads: initial benchmark results

[Wouter Stomp]

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 2:37 AM, Paul Sladen<ubuntu at paul.sladen.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, Martin Pitt wrote:
>> Lars Wirzenius [2009-07-14 19:19 +0300]:
>> > is a 25% reduction in download sizes worthwhile to pursue?
>
> A daily fetch of Packages.gz for main/restricted/universe/multiverse/* is
> ~10MB (IIRC), times 30 days per month and X million users, this is where the
> low-hanging fruit is likely to be.
>

More low hanging fruit: disable the source package repositories by
default (and provide some easy/automatic way to reenable them when
needed). Probably >90% of all people never use them and this would
save tons of bandwidth and time.

Wouter