Re: [gentoo-user] accelerate emerge

["Daniel da Veiga" <danieldaveiga@gmail.com>]

On 2/27/06, Alexander Skwar <listen@alexander.skwar.name> wrote:
> El Nino wrote:
>
> >   is there a way to accelerate the fetching part of emerge
> > by using prozilla or some other tool?
>
> I never quite understood the sense in those tools.
>
> Why should "prozilla or some other tool" make the
> download be faster? When I download something with
> wget, or watch emerge invoking wget, it's always
> maxing out the saturation of the line.
>

Well, if you have a high bandwidth line, like 8MB ADSL for example,
the host providing the download usually limit your download speed
reserving some band to other requests. If you could "teach" portage to
fetch pieces (like some other tools do) from different mirrors till
you saturate your line, your download would be considerably faster
(all your band would be used).

So, lets say I can use a program and tell it to use the GENTOO_MIRRORS
variable to download various pieces of the same file (reaching the
mirror servers limit and after a while your band limit), this would
ensure you would always use the max band you can... I think I saw some
tool over the net that could do that... Maybe wget itself....

/me go read the man pages...

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