On 10/21/07, yueyu lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As you noticed, sometimes, synaptic downloads packages slowly. I noticed > that apt-get in fact can use multiple threads to download sometimes. But > synaptic seems seldom to do this. > I wanna know why? In fact, it will not be difficult to modify codes to > support active multiple threads downloading. But it doesn't appear. I guess > developers think it's impolite to fork a lot of threads to download things > from server. The server may only serve for a few *rude* people. If it's > true, I will stop any attempts to do so. If it's not,I can have a try to do > this.
Using multiple connections to a single server is a sure way to "make things worse", that is, overloading the server more. What does help is making multiple connections to *different* servers. That actually lowers load, since your download bandwidth is now dispersed between servers, so you're using up less upstream bandwidth from each server. I have been doing so to download the .iso's via HTTP (torrents go slowly for me). -- Nicolas -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
