Re: apt: HTTP transfer method does not use available bandwidth

1998-04-27 Thread Kai Henningsen
olly@lfix.co.uk (Oliver Elphick) wrote on 27.04.98 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > unix.hensa.ac.uksunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk > wget http:1.97KB/s1.90KB/s > wget ftp: 5.19KB/s5.42KB/s > ftp: 4.2 Kbytes/sec

Re: apt: HTTP transfer method does not use available bandwidth

1998-04-27 Thread Raul Miller
Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First off, I assume Oliver is testing single files. Secondly wget must > recreate a data channel when using ftp anyhow so the fact that wget is > only using HTTP/1.0 would not be relavent. Oh. How.. tacky. -- Raul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: apt: HTTP transfer method does not use available bandwidth

1998-04-27 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Raul Miller wrote: > Oliver Elphick wrote: > > unix.hensa.ac.uksunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk > > wget http: 1.97KB/s1.90KB/s > > wget ftp: 5.19KB/s5.42KB/s > > wget uses HTTP/1.0, so must establish a new

Re: apt: HTTP transfer method does not use available bandwidth

1998-04-27 Thread Raul Miller
Oliver Elphick wrote: > unix.hensa.ac.uksunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk > wget http:1.97KB/s1.90KB/s > wget ftp: 5.19KB/s5.42KB/s wget uses HTTP/1.0, so must establish a new connection for every file transfered via http, b

Re: apt: HTTP transfer method does not use available bandwidth

1998-04-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
[I originally thought this was a problem with apt, but it appears to be a problem with HTTP transfers in general, so I am putting it on the devel list.] Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > >> The HTTP transfer method now used by apt is slow and does not use all the >> bandwidth available. By compariso