Re: rsync or wget?
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 03:53:31AM +1000, bob parker wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 00:48, David Fokkema wrote:
> > Hi group,
> >
> > I've just installed apt-proxy. Should I use rsync or wget for fetching
> > packages? I don't really understand the differences. I do understand
> > that rsync can sync to filesystems by only downloading the differences,
> > but apt-proxy knows what it needs to download, right? Only one package,
> > or a list or something like that, not a whole filesystem. And once a
> > transfer is started, what is the difference in speed between rsync and
> > wget? Does rsync do something very smart?
> >
> > So, basically: should I use rsync or ftp or http servers in my
> > apt-proxy.conf?
>
> I know nothing about apt-proxy but I do know that wget saturates my rubber
> band powered dial-up connection and makes browsing very unpleasant while it's
> going on. rsync does not saturate the link but it gets ~70meg / 8hours
> whereas ftp/http gets ~100meg in the same time.
I would suggest wget then. Because apt-proxy requests the file immediately
once it has received a request you want to get the data to the requester
(apt-get) ASAP.
And if you're worried about your line being saturated, you need to setup
QoS. There are some seperate pagkages, but fiaif includes firewalling, and
QoS features in one and has taken my average ping time time down from 500ms,
to 30-50ms on a 384/1.5 DSL link.
Mike
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