Tomas Bodzar wrote: > Hi all, > > who knows what may be normal speed during install of packages from official > repositories? I think that it's really slow. XFER shows about 0,1MB/s but my > connection is about 1,5MB/s. I know that there are differences between > servers, networks and so on but this spees is really too much slower when > comparing to others. Is this a problem of servers which serves repositories > or is it something in IPS? >
One piece of network stack tuning that may be helpful (if you have sufficient bandwidth) is the TCP receive window size, set via ndd as: ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_recv_hiwat <value> The default is 48k, which may be artificially low with broadband internet connections. I run with mine at 1048576. This does cause some additional memory consumption per connection, but for most laptop/desktop uses this isn't significant. Dave
