Niklas Edmundsson wrote:
In all honesty, I have a real hard time figuring out use cases for when the chunked download strategy would be a performance gain for package downloads since you already have redirector in mirrorbrain to do a rough load balancing between mirrors...
My understanding is that the chunking is to enable optimal use of the client-side bandwidth. Much depends on the available mirrors and the client's connection. For instance, if I download the file you mentioned wget -O /dev/null http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/x86_64/kernel-... I get slightly less than 10MB/sec. (also 1Gbit fibre) If that was spread over 5 mirrors and chunked, I would likely see a significantly faster download. Of course, I wouldn't normally be given a mirror in Sweden, but we have countries that have no mirrors at all. If you are in Spain, your 1Gbit fibre won't do you much good because everything comes from Switzerland or Germany or Sweden. Or elsewhere: For instance - again for the package above, a Vodafone user in Spain (81.203.0.0) might be given the following mirrors: a) Cyprus b) Iran c) China d) China -- Per Jessen, Zürich (5.6°C) member, openSUSE Heroes. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mirror+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: mirror+owner@opensuse.org