On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 7:34 AM, kunal ghosh <kunal.t2 at gmail.com> wrote: > When upgrading to beta 1 : > 1. spkg uses axel to perform the threaded downloads how does it determine > how many threads to start a particular download with ? It uses varying > number of threads for downloads > 2.initally the downloads are fast. but as the download comes down to the > last thread the download speed keeps decreasing constantly. Solution: > Increase the number of threads for the downloads. > how can it be done ? some config file ? >
The total time taken will be the time taken to download a chunk from the slowest mirror. So as the faster mirrors finish their chunks you will see the aggregate bandwith drop till at the end only one chunk from the slowest mirror is left. There are more intelligent things that can be done to select the fastest mirrors and use more threads for the slowest ones or avoid them. Axel does not have those algorithms. We can try looking at this approach: http://www.semicomplete.com/blog/geekery/freebsd-ports-master-sites-sorting.html Regards, Moinak. -- ================================ http://www.belenix.org/ http://moinakg.wordpress.com/
