On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 09:06:09AM +0200, David Fokkema wrote: > On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 03:22:37PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 03:53:31AM +1000, bob parker wrote: > > > On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 00:48, David Fokkema wrote: > > > > Hi group, > > > > > > > > I've just installed apt-proxy. Should I use rsync or wget for fetching > > > > packages? I don't really understand the differences. I do understand > > > > that rsync can sync to filesystems by only downloading the differences, > > > > but apt-proxy knows what it needs to download, right? Only one package, > > > > or a list or something like that, not a whole filesystem. And once a > > > > transfer is started, what is the difference in speed between rsync and > > > > wget? Does rsync do something very smart? > > > > > > > > So, basically: should I use rsync or ftp or http servers in my > > > > apt-proxy.conf? > > > > > > I know nothing about apt-proxy but I do know that wget saturates my rubber > > > band powered dial-up connection and makes browsing very unpleasant while it's > > > going on. rsync does not saturate the link but it gets ~70meg / 8hours > > > whereas ftp/http gets ~100meg in the same time. > > > > I would suggest wget then. Because apt-proxy requests the file immediately > > once it has received a request you want to get the data to the requester > > (apt-get) ASAP. > > > > And if you're worried about your line being saturated, you need to setup > > QoS. There are some seperate pagkages, but fiaif includes firewalling, and > > QoS features in one and has taken my average ping time time down from 500ms, > > to 30-50ms on a 384/1.5 DSL link. > > Yes, wget it is, :-) I'll look into QoS. I know what it is, of course, > but I never thought I would need it. I'm not that concerned with slow > browsing, but I have some ssh connections open from time to time. It > would be nice to keep them responsive while my other programs saturate > my internet connection. I'll take a look at fiaif.
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