Hi, Quoting Rani Ahmed (2015-02-13 06:59:11) > Hi. I hope I sending the correct mailing list. for apt feature requests/proposals? Yes. > Well.. I noticed that the web caching proxy of my ISP allows me to download > any small file , probably having a size of less than 100kB at the wire speed > (full speed), and any big one on a slower shaped speed. How does your ISP track "file sizes"? Does it really count how many bytes are transferred over every individual TCP connection and will start throttling each TCP connection after 100 kB? > And I think many ISP's follow the same method. I never heard of one. I'm from Europe. Can you name examples? > So, this is what I think that apt-get should do as long as it displays the > total sum of mega bytes to download before the download starts. What has "displaying the total sum of mega bytes" to do with the problem? > apt-get has to sort the package file sizes and download the smaller >package files first. What does the order in which downloads are done to do with your ISP throttling them? You say your ISP throttles "downloads" of bigger than 100kB. But what you say now also means that it puts each "download" within the context of the "downloads" that happened before and after it. So what *exactly* is your ISP throttling policy? > Any small package file of course won't be greater than 100kB. Currently, out of 44539 packages, there seem to be 24849 that are smaller than 100kB. > I know I can write a shell script for it. But having such a feature > built-in would be very nice. It can speed up the download. Did you consider using a local apt proxy or cacher? cheers, josch
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