Hi, last week, openSUSE 11.1 was released, shortly after I published http://lizards.opensuse.org/2008/12/16/best-way-to-download-opensuse/ That posting really helped to get some users to try out a download by metalink. And I read only very good feedback on mailing lists and IRC, some of it I have collected here:
I have collected some quotes from users from mailing lists and IRC: |> 15:38 < aa> downloading with aria2c for the first time |> 15:38 < bbb> ccccc: but dddd wants us to hit the 200TB mark! :-) |> 15:39 < dddd> hehe |> 15:39 < bbb> and it just went down even further. It's crawling now. dddd, what have you done? |> 15:39 < ccccc> bbb: download 2-3 DVDs! |> 15:39 < ccccc> why stop when you can download even more <snip> |> 15:46 * aa downloads with area2c and reaches 1300kbit/s !!!! |> 15:47 < dddd> aa: you have only a 10mbit line? :-) |> 15:52 < ccccc> wow, aria2 is really able to saturate my line |> 15:53 < ccccc> can it output more details where it downloads from? |> 15:55 < ccccc> I don't understand its progress. It goes to 100% and then starts from scratch |> 15:56 < eee> Im trying aria2 and it was quite useful |> 15:56 < eee> I tried to ssh to another box and download with ftp, well, server is busy |> 15:57 < eee> Connected to download.opensuse.org |> 15:57 < eee> 500 This server is busy, please try again later or any of my mirrors :-) |> 15:57 < bbb> I guess dddd beat his 200TB goal then :-) |> 15:59 < ccccc> download.o.o doesn't look busy |> 16:00 < eee> ccccc:did you try with ftp ? |> 16:00 < ccccc> eee: you shouldn't, the ftp server always returns 500 |> 16:00 < ccccc> you should use http <snip> |> 16:13 < ffffff> ok i bow my head in awe of aria2 450KiBs vs 56KiBs for straight http |> 16:13 < ggggggg> people could also just use torrent |> 16:14 < ccccc> ggggggg: they don't reach the bandwidth you get with akamai |> 16:14 < ggggggg> ccccc: if nobody uses torrent we cant speed up of course. |> 16:14 < ccccc> at least I have 180K with torrent and 570K with http |> 16:15 < hhhhhhhh> too few high speed mirrors seeding :-) |> 16:15 < ccccc> hhhhhhhh: too few seeders for too many leechers at least |> 16:16 < hhhhhhhh> yup.. so remember to seed via bittorrent when y'all are done with your fancy speedy downloads ;-) |> 16:16 < bbb> hhhhhhhh: do you get a commission for each seed? :-) |> 16:19 < hhhhhhhh> I get closer to my goal of world domination with every completed download >:-) |> 16:19 < mirrorbrain> ccccc: a very verbose log with -l aria2c.log |> 16:19 < mirrorbrain> ccccc: its probably easier to see that it does with "netstat -tupa | grep aria" |> 16:19 < mirrorbrain> ccccc: the first "count to 100%" is file allocation only |> 16:21 < ccccc> mirrorbrain: the authors haven't heared of fseek and write the 4G byte by byte? :) |> 16:22 < mirrorbrain> ccccc: the author has, but there is a reason, which is related to fragmentation on the disk |> 16:22 < mirrorbrain> ccccc: it can be switched off though. But the default seems to better like that, in most cases <snip> |> 6:46 < iiiiiiiii> Usually, it takes me 2-3 days to get one. I am shocked I have it already. The US mirrors are the best ever. |> 16:46 < iiiiiiiii> thanks <snip> |> I just want to say... wow, the downloads seem to have gone off |> smoothly. I had no issues at all with downloading the 11.1 release. |> It came in very fast using the Metalink thing. I have to tip my hat |> to the infrastructure guys and say well done! |> C. <snip> In a Russian linux user forum, there was a poll for the used download method. (Small number of participants, around 30 or 40 I think.) Metalinks were the most frequently used download method there, a bit ahead of BitTorrent. http://linuxforum.ru/index.php?showtopic=82321 The page seems to be unavailable right now. A user reporting success with aria2 used by the backend of the openSUSE download client, downloading packages: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458897#c6 |> Hi Peter, |> |> I've just updated to openSuse 11.1, and neither of the Thai mirrors have |> mirrored the repos yet. So, I'll have to wait a bit before trying the |> experiments promised above. |> |> In the meantime, I can tell you that the prototype, using aria2 as a backend |> for zypper and yast2, certainly seems to solve this bug for openSuse 11.1. |> |> I got good, though not fantastic, speed and more importantly, no timeouts, from |> the kde4.2 unstable repo. |> |> I don't know which mirrors aria2 assigned for the kde4 unstable repo (roll on |> 11.2!) but I searched around manually for one, and couldn't find anything |> nearby. So without the aria2 backend, I would have been stuck with kde 4.1. |> |> I'm going to try using the email address you gave for KU to "encourage" them |> get the 11.1 repos mirrored. Do you happen to have an email address for |> mirror.in.th? I looked around the Burapha University site, but couldn't find |> anything specific. |> |> Thanks |> Ian ... Isn't that great? Merry Christmas to everybody. Peter -- Contact: [email protected] (a.k.a. [email protected]) #opensuse-mirrors on freenode.net Info: http://en.opensuse.org/Mirror_Infrastructure SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Research & Development
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