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Re: Parallel downloads
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: Parallel downloads |
Date: |
Tue, 12 Nov 2019 16:36:40 +0100 |
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Hello,
Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> it’s not supposed to be
>> faster to download 10 things in parallel from ci.guix.gnu.org, than to
>> download them sequentially.
>
> I was thinking a little bit ahead in the future, e.g. when we have more
> build farms (if it ever happens), or with Torrent / IPFS support. Then
> I believe it would be highly beneficial: a sufficiently fast connection
> could effectively parallelize enough downloads to fill the bandwidth.
I think we’ll have to revisit this issue at that point; it’s hard to
discuss things in the abstract. :-)
> Also what about the CDNs? Is it currently possible to download from
> multiple CDNs at the same time?
We’d have to ask Chris Marusich about that, but I think CDNs should
typically use all the available bandwidth so I suspect there’s little to
be gained by having several connections in parallel.
Ludo’.
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