From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Test US mirror for bordeaux.guix.gnu.org and slow downloading of substitutes
Date: Mon, 30 May 2022 17:16:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8735gr3vbi.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pmk8mbvg.fsf@cbaines.net> (Christopher Baines's message of "Fri, 20 May 2022 16:38:07 +0100")
Hi,
Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> skribis:
> Now, performance is probably a bit more complicated than just download
> speed. The US mirror holds the narinfo information locally, which should
> enable it to respond to requests more quickly, reducing latency, but
> this is a little harder to test.
For those of us who have a fast connection to the server, download time
is CPU-bound; in that case, offering zstd substitutes can make a real
difference:
https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2021/getting-bytes-to-disk-more-quickly/
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-30 15:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-20 15:38 Test US mirror for bordeaux.guix.gnu.org and slow downloading of substitutes Christopher Baines
2022-05-24 5:52 ` Blake Shaw
2022-05-24 22:39 ` Blake Shaw
2022-05-24 22:46 ` Felix Lechner
2022-05-24 23:02 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2022-05-30 15:16 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2022-06-12 10:06 ` Christopher Baines
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