apt-spy
Just a tip to fellow Debian users out there: check out apt-spy - it benchmarks connection speeds from your site to various Debian mirrors (many of which you're unlikely to have heard about) and can find you some truly zippy ones. I've just done a fairly ponderous 'apt-get dist-upgrade' at work where the throughput for the whole session averaged over 1gB/S, which is a tad faster than the 150kB/S I'd been seeing from some of the better known mirrors. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: pedantry (Re: apt-spy)
a tad faster than the 150kB/S I'd been seeing from some of the better known mirrors. For what it's worth (which is very little, I'm quite sure), S is the SI abbreviation for the siemens, which is the SI unit for electrical conductance. Presumably you're talking about seconds, which should be abbreviated lower-case s. Yah, I figured I'd got it wrong but didn't take time to look it up. Oh, well - thanks to you, I now sit corrected, proving that you're at least as useful as a pair of orthopedic skivvies. ;- (orthopedantic?) I should mention that I (think I) heard that some very early versions of apt-spy would rewrite your sources.list file without saving the previous version, so if you're running an ancient Debian box, heads up. (I've never seen one had that problem, though...) ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: pedantry (Re: apt-spy)
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 03:19:09AM +0900, Derek Martin wrote: On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 11:22:26AM -0500, Michael ODonnell wrote: truly zippy ones. I've just done a fairly ponderous 'apt-get dist-upgrade' at work where the throughput for the whole session averaged over 1gB/S, which is Woohoo! Can I get a job there? ;-) ...duuuhh, I meant to say megabyte, not gigabyte. Aw, shucks... What a let-down. Our new lab network here is gigabit ethernet (not gigabyte, not yet anyway). It's really fun pushing 100 MB debug kernels around in about a second or so. It's also fun watching the FTP complete in just a second, and waiting several seconds for `sync` to return. :-) -- Bob Bell ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
