On 12/5/05, Joe Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Olaf van der Spek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On 12/5/05, Ivan Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Example: (/etc/apt/sources.list) > >> deb http://ftp.en.debian.org/debian main stable contrib non-free > >> deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian main stable contrib non-free > >> > >> in this case the stable packages will be ONLY downloaded from first > >> server > >> from the list ... > > > > And what is the problem? > > This person is requesting parallel downloads from multiple servers. So > basicly during package download, if there are three full and up-to-date > mirrors in sources.list, there should be simulatious downloads of different > packages from all three different mirrors. > The concept is that in some cases this can noticable improve performance, > especially whith sites that bandwidth throtle, or have some other sort of > bottleneck.
Do you mean throttling at the mirror site? Or between the mirror and the end-user? If the global (world) overhead of parallel downloads increases it may not be a good idea to do it.
