Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1233 mails)

[Peter Poeml <poeml@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 01:26:24PM +0100, Peter Poeml wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 12:16:09PM +0100, josef reidinger wrote:
> > > Then another problem is that aria2c will open 5 connections to each 
> > > source by 
> > > default. I need max 2 to use my bandwidth. 
> >
> >  -j, --max-concurrent-downloads=N
> >            Set maximum number of parallel downloads for every static
> >            (HTTP/FTP) URL, torrent and metalink. Default: 5
>
> Note, the -j option is used to set the number of simultaneous downloads,
> in the sense of multiple files being downloaded. This is possible
> because metalinks can contain URLs to several files. But because in this
> case just 1 download takes place, -j2 has no effect.
>
> The option that limits parallel (HTTP/FTP) connections per download is
>
>    -s, --split=N
>          Download a file using N connections. If more than N URLs are given,
>          first N URLs are used and remaining URLs are used for backup. If
>          less than N URLs are given, those URLs are used more than once so
>          that N connections total are made simultaneously. N must be between
>          1 and 16. Please see -j option too.  Default: 5

I have to correct myself: -s is not effective in this scenario. It is
ignored for metalink downloads. The -C option needs to be used instead.

This is a bit complicated and confusing, and Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa (author
of aria2c) is aware of this and plans to drop the -C option and use -s
option for metalink as well in 1.0.0 release.

Peter
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