Bug#158486: apt: parallel downloads from the same host
Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: wishlist
For some situations, it would be nice if apt-get had support for
downloading more than one file in parallel from the same server.
As it is now, it can only download files from different servers
at the same time. Doing many parallel downloads is not nice to the
network and so should not be the default, but may be useful in some
situations, like load balancing between 2 links with different IPs
("ip route add default equalize nexthop dev ppp0 nexthop dev ppp1")
where each one TCP connection can only use half of total bandwidth.
Thanks,
Marek
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux alf.amelek.gda.pl 2.4.18 #4 nie mar 31 17:46:40 CEST 2002 i586
Locale: LANG=pl_PL.iso-8859-2, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.iso-8859-2
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.2.5-14 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-11 The GNU stdc++ library
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