Re: Bug#47625: apt: wish: Add a 'slow' or 'modem' option to Queue-Mode
*- On 17 Oct, Jason Gunthorpe wrote about "Re: Bug#47625: apt: wish: Add a 'slow' or 'modem' option to Queue-Mode"
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> On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Brian Servis wrote:
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>> A 'slow' or 'modem' option to Queue-Mode would be great for dialout
>> access to limit the number of connection made over the modem. In
>> 'modem' mode only one connection of either http or ftp URI type would
>> be made at a time while other local URI types of cdrom, file & copy are
>> made simultaneously. Currently if I want to limit the number of
>> simultaneous connection over the modem I have to use the 'access'
>> method and have all non-local URI types be of the same type. This is
>> not always possible since not all mirrors have both ftp and http.
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> There is actually a complicated reason why it is like this. You see each
> download process gets its own URL queue and http/ftp have different
> download processes. It is difficult to serialize them as a single queue.
>
> So this is very, very, very low priority
>
> Jason
>
Ok, thanks for the explanation. I'll keep my fingers crossed. =)
Brian Servis
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