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Bug#158486: marked as done (apt: parallel downloads from the same host)

Your message dated Fri, 14 Aug 2015 22:01:09 +0200
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and subject line Re: apt: parallel downloads from the same host
has caused the Debian Bug report #158486,
regarding apt: parallel downloads from the same host
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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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Hi

On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 03:57:46PM +0200, Marek Michalkiewicz wrote:
> 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.

This was never implemented as it is indeed not nice for mirrors.  The
advent of various scripts doing it anyway just shows how this would have
been and still would be missused to put pressure on the mirrors for no
gain and even worse results in the long run.

What should be done can serve as a good and nice quasi-replacement are
redirector services like httpredir.debian.org which will use up all your
bandwidth while being nice to mirrors (and in fact distributing the load
better as even new and unknown mirrors will be used automatically).

Hence closing as "superseded by a better idea with working
implementation".


Best regards

David Kalnischkies

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