From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Parallel downloads
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 16:36:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r22dp0mv.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eeyfn9n7.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> (Pierre Neidhardt's message of "Sun, 10 Nov 2019 14:28:12 +0100")
Hello,
Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> it’s not supposed to be
>> faster to download 10 things in parallel from ci.guix.gnu.org, than to
>> download them sequentially.
>
> I was thinking a little bit ahead in the future, e.g. when we have more
> build farms (if it ever happens), or with Torrent / IPFS support. Then
> I believe it would be highly beneficial: a sufficiently fast connection
> could effectively parallelize enough downloads to fill the bandwidth.
I think we’ll have to revisit this issue at that point; it’s hard to
discuss things in the abstract. :-)
> Also what about the CDNs? Is it currently possible to download from
> multiple CDNs at the same time?
We’d have to ask Chris Marusich about that, but I think CDNs should
typically use all the available bandwidth so I suspect there’s little to
be gained by having several connections in parallel.
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-12 15:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-31 15:07 Parallel downloads Pierre Neidhardt
2019-10-31 16:18 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2019-10-31 16:48 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-10-31 18:01 ` zimoun
2019-10-31 18:09 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-11-03 14:48 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-11-03 15:29 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-11-06 15:34 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-11-06 16:08 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-11-09 17:40 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-11-10 13:28 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-11-12 15:36 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2019-11-12 15:59 ` John Soo
2019-11-12 16:48 ` zimoun
2019-11-13 7:43 ` Efraim Flashner
2019-11-13 11:26 ` zimoun
2019-11-12 17:44 ` Leo Famulari
2019-11-17 17:15 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-11-13 16:16 ` Mark H Weaver
2019-11-13 18:03 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-11-13 18:25 ` Leo Famulari
2019-11-13 19:34 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-12-13 9:35 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-12-13 12:25 ` Brett Gilio
2019-11-17 17:52 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-11-06 21:26 ` Bengt Richter
2019-11-01 10:06 ` Joshua Branson
2019-11-01 19:11 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-11-03 14:50 ` Ludovic Courtès
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