On 10 September 2010 13:33, Ronald van Haren <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Evangelos Foutras <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Evangelos Foutras <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Philipp Überbacher >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Excerpts from Sven-Hendrik Haase's message of 2010-09-10 01:27:39 +0200: >>>>> Whenever I try uploading a reasonably large package to >>>>> aur.archlinux.org, my average speed is around 500KB/s. This appears to >>>>> be an artificial limitation since a server would have at least >>>>> 10/10MBits uplink. I therefore request the speed limit to be disabled in >>>>> order to be able to upload large packages with all available bandwidth >>>>> to increase productivity. >>>>> >>>>> Or is there a reason for the limit? >>>>> >>>>> -- Sven-Hendrik >>>> >>>> Maybe I misunderstand something here, but my average upload to AUR is >>>> 600 Bytes, so the speed really doesn't matter. What do you upload there? >>>> -- >>>> Philipp >>>> >>>> -- >>>> "Wir stehen selbst enttäuscht und sehn betroffen / Den Vorhang zu >>>> und alle Fragen offen." Bertolt Brecht, Der gute Mensch von Sezuan >>> >>> Binary packages like sage-mathematics (over a GiB for both architectures). >> >> Looks like my message was misunderstood. I was referring to binary >> packages that get uploaded to [community]. These uploads are handled >> by the aur.archlinux.org server, which also happens to host the AUR. >> However, the AUR is not involved in this process, as uploads to >> [community] are done via SSH. >> >> The issue discussed in this thread is the fact that the server seems >> to have a bandwidth cap and thus uploads to it are restricted to >> ~500kB/s. >> > > are you sure about this? Isn't it related to your connection, how many > hubs it uses and the way it travels to the other side of the ocean? > I remember that before I moved houses last December I got a reasonable > upspeed (I think it was faster than 500 kB/s but I'm not sure), > nowadays I most of the time don't even come close to 500 kB/s. I > usually blame my connection for it. Well, you would have to ask one of > the server guys, they probably know better, I'm not sure they read > this list. > > Ronald >
I'm pretty sure it was faster when I was uploading a file but it wasn't anywhere near to my top upload speed so there is certainly some limit. I'll test the speed when I get access to the archlinux.org page because I don't want to fill community with orphans. Lukas
