From: Dave Nebinger <dnebinger@joat.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] accelerate emerge
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 13:32:56 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <440345D8.5060605@joat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060227183945.be1b83c8.hilse@web.de>
Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
>> 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.
>
> On my 1Gig line on my workstation at work it's usually _not_ saturizing
> the line. But I decided that it's not very polite to use a parallel
> fetching tool under these circumstances...
I would bet that has more to do with traffic shaping on your connection
to the external world than anything to do with the local bandwidth, in
which case you could probably parallel all you want w/o improving
download performance.
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-27 15:49 [gentoo-user] accelerate emerge El Nino
2006-02-27 16:00 ` Boris Fersing
2006-02-27 16:39 ` El Nino
2006-02-28 6:06 ` Zac Slade
2006-02-27 21:43 ` Ralph Slooten
2006-02-27 16:05 ` Alexander Skwar
2006-02-27 17:27 ` Daniel da Veiga
2006-02-27 17:39 ` Hans-Werner Hilse
2006-02-27 18:32 ` Dave Nebinger [this message]
2006-02-28 22:27 ` Walter Dnes
2006-02-28 22:55 ` Iain Buchanan
2006-02-28 23:25 ` Mike Owen
2006-02-28 23:42 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2006-02-28 23:50 ` Iain Buchanan
2006-03-01 3:17 ` Michael A. Smith
2006-03-01 4:11 ` Vladimir G. Ivanovic
2006-02-28 23:42 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2006-03-01 3:15 ` Michael A. Smith
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