On Nov 24, 2007 10:31 AM, Aaron Kulkis <akulkis00@hotpop.com> wrote:
Philippe Landau wrote:
Aaron Kulkis wrote:
How do you propose that YAST improve network communication speed? Downloading in parallel.
So, have the repository's disk-drive head bouncing back and forth between multiple files, rather than staying on one track until it's done... no, that does NOT speed up communication speed..it slows it down further (and even with striping (RAID 1), the principle still applies).
Downloading in parallel only speeds up communication when the different files being downloaded are on completely different PHYSICAL disk drives. That's not very well likely for the update files on a repository.
I doubt very much that we are disk limited during the startup of YOU or Yast-Software-Management. Those both take a couple minutes to initiate (from my office with a T-1 connection). During that time they seem to be interrogating one repository at a time in a serial fashion. Doing that in parallel does seem like it could improve things. The bigger issue is I suspect these 2 modules were not the focus of the desired redesign. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org