On 2016-01-20, Michael Lambert <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 19 Jan 2016, at 03:57, Erling Westenvik <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 01:26:15AM -0600, Luke Small wrote: >>> then it changes all the parsed http and ftp mirrors into http and ftp >>> downloads and changes them to non redundant http mirrors (it has to to >>> easily call ftp on it). It takes them and downloads SHA256 from the >>> mirrors and the parent times how long it takes. If it takes too long >>> it kills the ftp call and goes on to the next one. Then it sorts the >>> results and puts the winner in /etc/pkg.conf >> >> So the program basically makes several network connections to >> potentially some 120 servers all across the world and the "winner" is >> calculated based on the "speed" it took downloading a 1.9K text file >> from each of them? > > Which isn't even a big enough transfer to get TCP out of slow start.
Talking of this, you'll probably get a better speed improvement by switching to HTTP/1.1 with keepalives and picking *any* mirror on the same continent, than fine-tuning from the current list... That is probably more interesting to implement too :-)
