Re: "octave.sf.net bandwidth exceeded"

[Michael Goffioul]

On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 5:46 PM, c. <address@hidden> wrote:

On 8 Jan 2014, at 23:09, Michael Goffioul <address@hidden> wrote:

> Actually, if you look at the trends for the Windows binaries (3.6.4) over the last year, we're in the decreasing phase. And download rate has been much higher, for instance last fall. OTOH what has changed recently is the addition of the OSX binary (3.8.0), which is quite large (about 10x the size of the MSVC installer). So maybe SF is choking on distributing such large file.

No fortunately that is not the case, as Carnë explained the bandwidth limit is on the web pages only (which do not go through the mirroring system), not on the distribution files.
Anyway reducing the size of the OSX binay is on my todo list, but that will cost me time while the sourceforge.net bandwidth doe not cost me anything so the priority is currently low ...

Fair enough. I also found it strange that it only choked now, while the download rate is much lower than a couple of months earlier.

Michael.