Bug#179384: apt: Limits of rate-limiting
Package: apt
Version: 0.7.14+b1
Followup-For: Bug #179384
I believe I asked for this fix, long ago. However it appears
to have gotten lost in the mists of time, down the swirl of
the Debian sinkhole...
;>
There is an issue with rate-limiting '-o Acquire::http::Dl-Limit='
-- which is not actually completely worked out, logically.
apt-get does NOT rate-limit the entire download session:
instead, it only rate-limits each particular process it is
working on. And so, when you are getting packages from
_multiple_ sources, the download rate is actually a
*multiple* of whatever is set in 'Dl-Limit='.
This, of course, is NFG for anyone who has set the rate
limit thinking they have set an absolute bar for apt-get.
They will instead max out their Internet connection, if
there is more than one source.
-- grok.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (998, 'testing'), (501, 'stable'), (99, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii debian-archive-keyring 2008.04.16+nmu1 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.2.2-3 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.2.2-3 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
apt recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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