From: Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net>
To: Josh Marshall <joshua.r.marshall.1991@gmail.com>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Architecture to reduce download time when pulling multiple packages
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2023 11:14:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8734ye965y.fsf@cbaines.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFkJGRdJLvFQ5NvWVFUGuye7E=tn=qHq2bDnY8Az5jcUZrFuMg@mail.gmail.com>
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Josh Marshall <joshua.r.marshall.1991@gmail.com> writes:
> I just went and installed everything with texlive in the name. A few
> were less than 1KB, a few over 1GB. Download speed peaked at less
> than 3MB/s. My Internet is a fiber connection with symmetric gigabit.
> However, I think picking at this info is the wrong tack. I am of the
> opinion this should be considered in the abstract and general to keep
> away from my situation and to more apply towards all use cases.
The limited data I've seen suggests the download speeds people get from
the substitute servers vary a lot depending on their internet connecting
peering and location, so it's quite hard to consider this in an abstract
sense. Some people already get substitute download speeds that saturate
a gigabit connection, while some don't.
There has been work on setting up mirrors though, e.g. see [1] for some
information and data on how these work for different people.
1: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2023-05/msg00290.html
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2023-10-12 3:27 Architecture to reduce download time when pulling multiple packages Josh Marshall
2023-10-12 8:04 ` Christopher Baines
2023-10-12 18:09 ` Josh Marshall
2023-10-13 10:14 ` Christopher Baines [this message]
2023-10-13 16:36 ` Josh Marshall
2023-10-13 18:05 ` Architecture to reduce download time when pulling multiple packages – historic success with magnet URLs, BTIHs, & Aria2c! JRHaigh+ML.GNU.Guix--- via
2023-10-15 18:21 ` Josh Marshall
2023-10-18 1:44 ` Josh Marshall
2023-10-18 8:11 ` Christopher Baines
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