On Nov 24, 2007 10:31 AM, Aaron Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Philippe Landau wrote: > > Aaron Kulkis wrote: > >> How do you propose that YAST improve network communication speed? > > Downloading in parallel. > > So, have the repository's disk-drive head bouncing back and > forth between multiple files, rather than staying on one > track until it's done... no, that does NOT speed up > communication speed..it slows it down further (and even > with striping (RAID 1), the principle still applies). > > Downloading in parallel only speeds up communication when > the different files being downloaded are on completely > different PHYSICAL disk drives. That's not very well > likely for the update files on a repository. >
I doubt very much that we are disk limited during the startup of YOU or Yast-Software-Management. Those both take a couple minutes to initiate (from my office with a T-1 connection). During that time they seem to be interrogating one repository at a time in a serial fashion. Doing that in parallel does seem like it could improve things. The bigger issue is I suspect these 2 modules were not the focus of the desired redesign. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
