Re: apt PARALLELISM

["Joe Smith" <unknown_kev_cat@hotmail.com>]

"Olaf van der Spek" <olafvdspek@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> On 12/5/05, Joe Smith <unknown_kev_cat@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > "Olaf van der Spek" <olafvdspek@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> > > On 12/5/05, Ivan Adams <ivancho.b@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> Example: (/etc/apt/sources.list)
> > >> deb http://ftp.en.debian.org/debian main stable contrib non-free
> > >> deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian main stable contrib non-free
> > >>
> > >> in this case the stable packages will be ONLY downloaded from first
> > >> server
> > >> from the list ...
> > >
> > > And what is the problem?
> >
> > This person is requesting parallel downloads from multiple servers. So
> > basicly during package download, if there are three full and up-to-date
> > mirrors in sources.list, there should be simulatious downloads of 
> > different
> > packages from all three different mirrors.
> > The concept is that in some cases this can noticable improve performance,
> > especially whith sites that bandwidth throtle, or have some other sort of
> > bottleneck.
>
> Do you mean throttling at the mirror site? Or between the mirror and
> the end-user?
Either. It is possible that a router could be throttling the flow rate to a 
network owned by annother company. Other possible cases are where a user has 
connections speeds higher than some of the servers. (for example, some rich 
user could have multi-T3). I'm not sure it is needed, but I do understand 
that in some cases such a feature may be usefull.

Now it is useless for users where the bottleneck is on their end.