Package: debmirror Version: 20060907.1 Severity: minor
I was puzzled by the apparently appalling throughput being achieved by debmirror until I realised it was using a nonsensical total for the number of bytes transferred. For example: Downloaded 60 MiB in 7123s at 8.58 kiB/s Nearly two hours for 60 MiB looks dreadful, but then I checked how much it had actually downloaded. The following downloads occurred during the run of debmirror: total size is 49346242 speedup is 1.00 total size is 147718710 speedup is 1.00 total size is 112573184 speedup is 1.00 total size is 179826378 speedup is 1.00 total size is 314808900 speedup is 1.00 total size is 352018324 speedup is 1.00 total size is 121487820 speedup is 1.00 total size is 90141452 speedup is 1.00 total size is 36065234 speedup is 1.00 total size is 448769566 speedup is 1.00 total size is 205355332 speedup is 1.00 total size is 24047366 speedup is 1.00 total size is 42010528 speedup is 1.00 total size is 19569308 speedup is 1.00 total size is 59404878 speedup is 1.00 total size is 82376048 speedup is 1.00 total size is 282801820 speedup is 1.00 total size is 834051558 speedup is 1.00 total size is 99735260 speedup is 1.00 total size is 57858900 speedup is 1.00 total size is 273668514 speedup is 1.00 total size is 208600568 speedup is 1.00 total size is 136772168 speedup is 1.00 total size is 394115268 speedup is 1.00 total size is 80825220 speedup is 1.00 total size is 430140616 speedup is 1.00 (I've lined up the numbers to ease addition.) As you can see, this adds up to more like 5 GiB rather than 60 MiB which is much more believable on an 8 megabit link. This happens every time I invoke it with a passable number of files to be fetched. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.20.4-blandings2 Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB) Versions of packages debmirror depends on: ii bzip2 1.0.3-6 high-quality block-sorting file co ii libcompress-zlib-perl 1.42-2 Perl module for creation and manip ii libdigest-sha1-perl 2.11-1 NIST SHA-1 message digest algorith ii liblockfile-simple-perl 0.2.5-7 Simple advisory file locking ii libwww-perl 5.805-1 WWW client/server library for Perl ii perl [libdigest-md5-perl] 5.8.8-7 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii perl-modules [libnet-perl] 5.8.8-7 Core Perl modules ii rsync 2.6.9-2 fast remote file copy program (lik Versions of packages debmirror recommends: ii gnupg 1.4.6-2 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep ii patch 2.5.9-4 Apply a diff file to an original -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
