Using zsync for .deb downloads: initial benchmark results

[Scott Ritchie]

Mike Rooney wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Wouter Stomp<wouterstomp at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> 
> I noticed this as well; the universe source list is something like
> 10MB by itself. I think we could check for updates a lot faster if
> these were disabled by default but trivial to enable. I think just
> commenting them out by default would work fine, anyone advanced enough
> to want to apt-get source can handle uncommenting lines in a text file
> I would suspect.
> 

I thought they WERE commented out by default, at least with new
installs.  This is equivalent to being unchecked in
System->Administration->Software Sources.

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie