Re: fetching substitutes slow

2014-01-21 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Sree Harsha Totakura skribis: > So, I removed the timeout with the attached patch and the substitute > downloads are working again. This time I observed that the speed at > which the substitute-binary.scm downloads the nar file is far low than > when the same file is downloaded through wget. I

fetching substitutes slow

2014-01-21 Thread Sree Harsha Totakura
Hi, Over the last week I tried to fetch substitutes with no success from hydra.gnu.org. It always showed the error "server is unresponsive". However, the nar packages get downloaded with wget. So, I removed the timeout with the attached patch and the substitute downloads are working again. This