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Package: axel
Version: 2.4-1
Severity: normal
The axel manpage says the following:
Axel is a program that downloads a file from a FTP or HTTP server
through multiple connection, each connection downloads its own part of the file.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Problem is, that's not what happens when you pass the -n switch.
debian-IBMx3650:~# axel --verbose -S4 -n 4 -a
http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.1/amd64/iso-cd/debian-501-amd64-netinst.iso
Initializing download:
http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.1/amd64/iso-cd/debian-501-amd64-netinst.iso
Doing search...
Testing speeds, this can take a while...
1 usable servers found, will use these URLs:
URL
Speed
http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.1/amd64/iso-cd/debian-501-amd6
475
File size: 142194688 bytes
Opening output file debian-501-amd64-netinst.iso
State file found: 17021032 bytes downloaded, 125173656 to go.
Starting download
[ 13%] [......0 1 2 3 ] [ 95.9KB/s]
[20:57]^C
Downloaded 1602.1 kilobytes in 17 seconds. (94.20 KB/s)
As you can see above, it does divide it into 4 chunks. But the other
chunks (or sessions) never start. Or maybe the progress bar is
misleading and doesn't update properly.
Ritesh
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages axel depends on:
ii libc6 2.9-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
axel recommends no packages.
axel suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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On Tuesday 12 May 2009 14:57:29 Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote:
> On 09/05/12 12:07 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf said ...
>
> > I'm using -a but the other threads show no progress.
> > Actually, they do show progress. But only when the 1st one completes, the
> > 2nd one starts.
>
> It is possible that the next-hop or the endpoint doesn't accept more than
> one connection at a time. It is only in that case, that axel can't use
> more than one connection/thread to download.
Hadn't hoped that cdimage on Debian server was restricted to a single
connection.
Better should have done some more testing.
axel works perfect with a different link.
Closing the bug report.
Ritesh
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