On 12.09.2012 18:30, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > I mentioned before that I dislike sourceforge. I just had another > instance as to why. I was updating the master files repository with > virtuoso-opensource-6.1.6.tar.gz. That's about 115 MB. The download > speed was generally less than 200 KB/sec. Sometimes as low as 15 > KB/sec. In this case, it took 10 minutes. > > The problem does not occur on other sites. The kernel, for instance > will download at over 1 MB/second. GNU sites, debian, mozilla, and > almost all other sites offer good download speed. > > I'd like to request that editors try to find alternative sites to > sourceforge. If that's the only site available, please offer anduin as > an alternate source. > > Generally, I update the master files repo every morning and anduin > rsyncs to the master twice a day (7:07 AM and PM GMT) from the changes > committed the previous day. > > -- Bruce >
Uh, doesn't sourceforge have lot of mirrors? I counted at least 5 different ones. Download speeds are fair enough here. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
