thanks for sharing! that is all great news. I think we're having an impact.
we have some really nice cooperation going between MirrorBrain + Metalink + aria2 & other metalink clients. it's really nice w/ aria2 because it can share the files over bittorrent even if it's been a download from mirrors or mirrors+torrent. then we also have the signatures for openSUSE downloads included in the metalinks. where do we go from here? :) a late merry Christmas & happy holidays to everyone... On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Peter Poeml <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- (( Anthony Bryan ... Metalink [ http://www.metalinker.org ] )) Easier, More Reliable, Self Healing Downloads --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Metalink Discussion" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/metalink-discussion?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
