Hi Christopher, Here in Singapore download speed has gone from bad to worse over the last two weeks, so bad that I was having to --fallback often and wound up setting up a cuirass instance to continuously build a collection of manifests I'm working with (which solved the issue). Not at my machine atm but will wget stellarium and send the results when I am.
Best, Blake --- Blake Shaw Director, SWEATSHOPPE sweatshoppe.org --- On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 11:09 PM Christopher Baines <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey! > > So the nar-herder came in to existence at the end of last year (2021) > and while the main use at the time was addressing the lack of storage on > bayfront, I also hoped to improve the situation regarding mirrors for > substitutes. > > I'm not in a great situation to test this though, as my usual internet > connection is slow enough that a closer mirror probably won't make much > difference. > > So, one thing that I'd be interested in, is hearing from anyone who > thinks they get worse download performance from bordeaux.guix.gnu.org or > ci.guix.gnu.org than they get when downloading other > things. Importantly, it would be good to know roughly where > (geographically) the machine doing the downloading is, and some data to > show the difference. > > For example, I'm in the United Kingdom in Europe, and this is the output > from wget downloading a ~200M file from bordeaux.guix.gnu.org: > > → wget > https://bordeaux.guix.gnu.org/nar/lzip/078vr3r8mn3yrwzwxw64hmcyshic9p3q-stellarium-0.21.0 > --2022-05-20 16:49:56-- > https://bordeaux.guix.gnu.org/nar/lzip/078vr3r8mn3yrwzwxw64hmcyshic9p3q-stellarium-0.21.0 > Resolving bordeaux.guix.gnu.org (bordeaux.guix.gnu.org)... 2a0c:e300::58, > 185.233.100.56 > Connecting to bordeaux.guix.gnu.org > (bordeaux.guix.gnu.org)|2a0c:e300::58|:443... connected. > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK > Length: 208615205 (199M) [text/plain] > Saving to: ‘078vr3r8mn3yrwzwxw64hmcyshic9p3q-stellarium-0.21.0.6’ > > 078vr3r8mn3yrwzwxw64 100%[======================>] 198.95M 4.24MB/s in > 46s > > 2022-05-20 16:50:43 (4.31 MB/s) - > ‘078vr3r8mn3yrwzwxw64hmcyshic9p3q-stellarium-0.21.0.6’ saved > [208615205/208615205] > > > Also, I've setup a US based (Hetzner data center, east coast) mirror of > bordeaux.guix.gnu.org: > > https://bordeaux-us-east-mirror.cbaines.net/ > > So, I'd also be interested in seeing how that performs for people, and > how it compares against bordeaux.guix.gnu.org, which is hosted in France > in Europe. > > Here's my output from wget: > > → wget > https://bordeaux-us-east-mirror.cbaines.net/nar/lzip/078vr3r8mn3yrwzwxw64hmcyshic9p3q-stellarium-0.21.0 > --2022-05-20 16:50:44-- > https://bordeaux-us-east-mirror.cbaines.net/nar/lzip/078vr3r8mn3yrwzwxw64hmcyshic9p3q-stellarium-0.21.0 > Resolving bordeaux-us-east-mirror.cbaines.net > (bordeaux-us-east-mirror.cbaines.net)... 5.161.49.48 > Connecting to bordeaux-us-east-mirror.cbaines.net > (bordeaux-us-east-mirror.cbaines.net)|5.161.49.48|:443... connected. > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK > Length: 208615205 (199M) [text/plain] > Saving to: ‘078vr3r8mn3yrwzwxw64hmcyshic9p3q-stellarium-0.21.0.7’ > > 078vr3r8mn3yrwzwxw64 100%[======================>] 198.95M 4.17MB/s in > 47s > > 2022-05-20 16:51:32 (4.22 MB/s) - > ‘078vr3r8mn3yrwzwxw64hmcyshic9p3q-stellarium-0.21.0.7’ saved > [208615205/208615205] > > > Now, performance is probably a bit more complicated than just download > speed. The US mirror holds the narinfo information locally, which should > enable it to respond to requests more quickly, reducing latency, but > this is a little harder to test. > > Thanks, > > Chris
