Roman Scherer <[email protected]> writes:

With --substitute-urls="https://hydra-guix-129.guix.gnu.org"; I get
2.3MiB/s , much faster.

> Roman Scherer <[email protected]> writes:
>
> Hi Christopher,
>
> I'm updating my system and Bordeaux is slow again. Here's the URL I'm
> downloading right now, 9 July 19:11, CEST (UTC+2).
>
> ```
> substituting 
> /gnu/store/cycc2w4jxkaxh5sr6yqjpb9xxs6s9k1v-lsp-plugins-1.2.25-doc...
> guix substitute: warning: while fetching 
> https://bordeaux.guix.gnu.org/nar/lzip/cycc2w4jxkaxh5sr6yqjpb9xxs6s9k1v-lsp-plugins-1.2.25-doc:
>  server is somewhat slow
> guix substitute: warning: try `--no-substitutes' if the problem persists
> downloading from 
> https://bordeaux.guix.gnu.org/nar/lzip/cycc2w4jxkaxh5sr6yqjpb9xxs6s9k1v-lsp-plugins-1.2.25-doc
>  ...
>  lsp-plugins-1.2.25-doc  25.7MiB 22KiB/s 00:38 ▕▌                 ▏   3.2%
> ```
>
>> Christopher Baines <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>> Hi Christopher,
>>
>> thanks for your answer. I'm in Santander, Spain right now using my
>> German Telekom mobile connection on 5G which is quite fast. I also
>> noticed this when I was in Berlin, Germany. It happened yesterday when I
>> sent the email at 07 Jul 2026 22:25:41.
>>
>> I don't have the URLs anymore, but I will record them the next time it
>> happens.
>>
>> Thanks for your help!
>>
>>> Roman Scherer <[email protected]> writes:
>>>
>>>> I'm running Guix on an aarch64 system and rely on the substitutes from
>>>> Bordeaux. From time to time it is very slow. Right now I'm downloading
>>>> ffmpeg-8.1.2-debug (36.5 MB) at 32KiB/s.
>>>>
>>>> Why is that?
>>>> - is it overloaded building packages?
>>>
>>> bordeaux.guix.gnu.org is served from bayfront, which currently doesn't
>>> build packages.
>>>
>>>> - too many people downloading from it?
>>>
>>> This is probably not the case, since there was a period several months
>>> ago when bayfront was sending a lot more data out to the network.
>>>
>>>> Can anything be done to improve the situation (e.g. split building and 
>>>> serving)?
>>>
>>> Yes, but things with the bordeaux build farm are a bit up in the air at
>>> the moment. The roadmap is here
>>> https://codeberg.org/guix/-/projects/29513 and next there's still a
>>> bunch of moving things around to do on bayfront.
>>>
>>> As can be seen on the diagram on https://bordeaux.guix.gnu.org/ Nginx on
>>> bayfront is a reverse proxy for hydra-guix-129, since bayfront lacks
>>> enough local storage for all the nars. Unfortunately this probably hurts
>>> performance, and there's probably improvements to be made to the caching
>>> on bayfront.
>>>
>>>> Are there better mirrors that serve aarch64 substitutes?
>>>
>>> It's not a mirror, but you can try using hydra-guix-129.guix.gnu.org,
>>> which serves the bordeaux nar collection as well.
>>>
>>> It would be helpful to have the exact URLs/store paths that you find are
>>> slow, and when/where you're experiencing this so it can be further
>>> investigated.

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