Re: standard apt/yum meta-data format

["Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>]

On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 08:30:47AM +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote:
> IIRC rsync is a problem because of the CPU load it generates, not 
> because it uses more bandwidth than downloading whole files (which it 
> probably doesn't). Downloading more smaller files will perhaps increase 
> disk seeks a bit, but should definitely cause net bandwidth to go down.

For most Debian mirrors, net bandwidth is largely uninteresting these days,
really, at least if you can trade it off for CPU speed on a busy server. But
we've already been through this at another point in the thread. :-)

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