*- On 17 Oct, Jason Gunthorpe wrote about "Re: Bug#47625: apt: wish: Add a 'slow' or 'modem' option to Queue-Mode" > > On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Brian Servis wrote: > >> A 'slow' or 'modem' option to Queue-Mode would be great for dialout >> access to limit the number of connection made over the modem. In >> 'modem' mode only one connection of either http or ftp URI type would >> be made at a time while other local URI types of cdrom, file & copy are >> made simultaneously. Currently if I want to limit the number of >> simultaneous connection over the modem I have to use the 'access' >> method and have all non-local URI types be of the same type. This is >> not always possible since not all mirrors have both ftp and http. > > There is actually a complicated reason why it is like this. You see each > download process gets its own URL queue and http/ftp have different > download processes. It is difficult to serialize them as a single queue. > > So this is very, very, very low priority > > Jason >
Ok, thanks for the explanation. I'll keep my fingers crossed. =) Brian Servis -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
