On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 10:25:35AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: > > Mayuresh <[email protected]> writes: > > > On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 02:56:03PM +0000, Victor Aur?lio Santos wrote: > >> Thank you matthew sporleder worked nice! > >> > >> Mayuresh, have you tried FETCH_USING=aria2c -j16 or something like > >> this ? (based on matthew response) > > > > After Thor's response I am afraid of trying! > > Basically the point is that TCP does congestion control. Running 16 > TCPs in parallel uses up more server resources and is rude to the other > people.
Point taken. I was not needing this option when I was using wired broadband connection which used to saturate. Due to some service issues I switched to a 3G connection which yields more throughput only with multiple threads. (I don't know why it does not yield full bandwidth to a single thread. Perhaps there are techno-commercial reasons.) But, even with multiple threads (10 by default with aget) I get maximum 1.5 to 2 mbps of speed. So I thought it would not be so taxing (or does the impact on others depend only on connection count and not on throughput??) Anyway, I have taken a note of this and I use the default downloader for pkgsrc. (Hardly 1 or 2 times till now I had used aget.) Mayuresh.
