From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FDnHE-0006am-Qa for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 18:39:21 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1RIcGDZ019876; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 18:38:16 GMT Received: from vms046pub.verizon.net (vms046pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.46]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1RIYCO4007673 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 18:34:13 GMT Received: from mail.joat.com ([71.114.144.163]) by vms046.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-4.02 (built Sep 9 2005)) with ESMTPA id <0IVC00F0TZKZ39C7@vms046.mailsrvcs.net> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:34:12 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (cornholio.joat.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail.joat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 685F8AEA9 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 13:34:11 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail.joat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.joat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 24663-04 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 13:34:09 -0500 (EST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (dnebing.tbbgl.com [141.151.196.13]) by mail.joat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 13:34:09 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 13:32:56 -0500 From: Dave Nebinger Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] accelerate emerge In-reply-to: <20060227183945.be1b83c8.hilse@web.de> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <440345D8.5060605@joat.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at joat.com References: <44032353.4080208@mid.message-center.info> <20060227183945.be1b83c8.hilse@web.de> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060130 SeaMonkey/1.0 X-Archives-Salt: 62be1cd6-213d-4fca-b120-cfece14f8976 X-Archives-Hash: b52abcec6ede256fd4f8a4394a50b1ae 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. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list